>>>Yeah, but in the old days, 'Select A', 'Select B' was about all we had.
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>>Many years ago I took over a dBase III project where the previous programmer had named his files A.DBF, B.DBF, etc.
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>>Worked fine as long as he opened A.DBF in A, B.DBF in B, but otherwise it caused the most AMAZING errors :-)
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>>Barbara
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>Oh, I'm sorry......don't things like that just make you wanna go FIND the last programmer that worked on the project and......hurt them in new and imaginative ways?

Since the fields often had identical names (like DATE, DESC, and (really!) MEMO) the code was --- ummm --- interesting.

Barbara