Walter may be on to something here.... I remember hearing that Fox actually stores numeric fields as ascii characters, not binary, so maybe the seek routine is the same.
Of course, integer fields ARE stored as binary, so???....
Mark
>As I recall correctly (can't check this right now) this has been possible since FPD 2.0. VFP automatically translates the character into numeric when the index is numeric.
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