>I have been looking at a code print out for part of the company i work for's >original program. It is done in Foxpro for UNIX and has a command I haven't >ever seen before. It uses a table and then issues the command
>'SET FORMAT TO ordnum'. My question is, is it formating the field in the table >or just the 'textbox' on the screen?

Wow! I didn't think I would get this kind of response. Thank you all for satiating my curiosity.