>>You are probably right. But I wonder having used SYS(2015) all these years to get unique cursor names, why I have not run into this before -- especially since file names beginning with a mumeral became legal in DOS 5 ( or 6? ).
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>Sys(2015) returns a alphanumeric string starting with an underscore, which is legal. All aliases, fields, objects, and properties must begin with a letter or underscore.
You're right. I was substringing sys(2015) which gave me a name beginning with a numeral. Looking at some old code shows that I never did that before. That's the problem.
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Jim Edgar
Jurix Data Corporation
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