>>In defence of the other method, you can write your own funtions that act similarly to GetNextModified(), GetFldState(),SetFldState(),OldVal(),CurVal() etc.
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>You can write a lot of things, you can write windows in fortran, but why reinvent the wheel if you have something that is built in in the language and works properly (actually there was a little bug with getfldstate in VFP6.0 pre SP3 but that's besided the point :) )
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>Arnon

Generally, I agree. But there are cases where the built-in method (of buffering) itself will not work as nicely as other methods; this is when you would write these functions.

Joe