Fred,

>I seriously doubt that:
>A) they will change it
>B) if they did, that it wouldn't have an adverse reaction to a lot of people's code

>It really is extremely difficult to change anything to be the opposite way, no matter how "right" the new way is. It will always impact somebody! But I do agree, it probably SHOULD HAVE BEEN the other way, or to at least have had some sort of setting like SET NOFILTER ON or something like that. At least with a setting, it's your choice to change it!

If I remember it correctly, There is a set-command which default setting has changed from VFP 5 to VFP 6. I can't remember which command it was.

Walter,