>>>>Hey Alexander - thanks - that did the trick!
>>>
>>>Hi Chris,
>>>I do this all the time and just COUNT in the command window will count all the records in your filter set. Make sure SET TALK ON and SET STATUS BAR ON.
>>>
>>>I also do subsets of the filter by
>>>

Count() for <i>condition</i>

>>>HTH a little more,
>>>Pete
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>>I'm wandering, is where another way besides COUNT. The filter itself would be slow, then COUNT - two slow commands to determine this number... :(
>
>Hi Nadya,
>
>Sure, SELECT fieldname, cnt(*), etc.
>
>but then, COUNT takes less time to type. Unless of course, you can type perfectly AND fast. Me, I can't do either... 8-\

SELECT would not respect buffered data. Actually, if bof() and eof() at the sime time, it means, that all records are filtered out...