Hi Joe,

See Thread #277228 and if this worked as I hope you should just be able to click on the highlighted number to see it.

Cheers,

Jim N

>I am not familiar with the WISH...does he want to be able to set whether or not a record is actually purged when it is deleted?
>
>Joe
>
>>In addition, one could indicate support for Walter M's recent WISH for a TABLE "property" to indicate how DELETED() records are desired to be handled.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Jim N
>>
>>>Well, you can issue a PACK command.
>>>
>>>You need exclusive use of the table for this and you will purge all records marked for deletion.
>>>
>>>If this is not good, you can blank out the data before deleting the record (in case the issue is sensitivity of information).
>>>
>>>You can also blank records and re-use them if you would like...
>>>
>>>Depends on your situation...
>>>
>>>Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>>hi,
>>>>
>>>>anybody can help me..
>>>>
>>>>I want to delete a record but i dont want to mark it as deleted i want to delete it permanetly...
>>>>
>>>>TIA