If you have the appropriate indexes built, then the locate command is just as fast and allows what you are looking for:

locate all for birthd = m.birthd and patname.value = tablename.fieldname

or, you could build a index to have all the fields that you are looking for:

index on birthd + value tag searchkey

then do the seek like:

seek birthd + value

HTH!

>Does anyone know how I can do an extensive seek. Something like:
>Seek (birthd) and patname.value = tablename.fieldname and etc etc