For the record, I was trained from the very beginning (using Clipper Summer '87) to no use filters. Period. Had nothing to do with C/S "stuff" as you call it. Indeed, I barely remembered there was a such a command when I started with Fox.

When it was necessary to "filter" we would index on IIF( lcondition, 'B', 'A' ) + cfield, then we would seek "B" and go from there.

Worked great on large (for then) data sets that users could build custom queries for. Clipper was *such* a hog it would have been impossible to to use SET FILTER.

IMHO, you can't go wrong NOT using filters, but you sure can go wrong using them.

>I fully agree. Too many of are poisened by the SQL and C/S stuff. SET FILTER was and still is a powerfull mechanism in the xBase standard.