You should know that you can go to a record that is deleted:

GO nRec

where nRec is the value returned by RECNO() for that record. This is mainly to be able to do a RECALL while set deleted on.

Vlad

>It appears that
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>SET DELETE ON
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>invokes a built in "filter" for a "delete flag" in every table record.
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>Everything I've read suggests that I should have every expectation that a deleted record, though still physically present, should be "virtually" invisible to absolutely everything I do within a table (except of course to become "real" if I SET DELETE OFF).
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>Is it naiive to assume that deleted records disabled by SET DELETE ON will be totally inert with respect to my app or are there some well known gotchas I should be aware of?