>>>>>>>>>I have some dupe records that are causing me problems and I need to delete one of the dupes for each record in several tables. Is there a way to do that without deleting each individual record by hand? Is there a way to do it using the command line?
>>
>>>>Ok, last try before I'll actually run a test :)
>>>>

>>>>select KeyID, count(*) as CntDups from yourtable group by KeyID ;
>>>>       having CntDups > 1 ;
>>>>       into cursor curDupes
>>>>if _tally>0 && There are dups in table
>>>>  index on KeyID tag KeyID
>>>>  scan
>>>>  if seek(KeyID,'YourTable',"KeyID") && should be always found
>>>>     * select YourTable
>>>>     delete in YourTable && One duplicated record is deleted now
>>>>   endif
>>>>   endscan
>>>>endif
>>>>use in curDupes
>>>>

>>>Looks like it'll work for one duplicate per KeyId. What if there're more than one?
>>
>>See the highlighted part in the original question :) What was asked - that was answered, nothing more, nothing less :)
>>
>>Of course, if we expand the original problem, I have to think a little bit more :)
>
>Ok, you got me :)

:) On the serious note, if we need to delete all dups but one, I think, Ron's solution is the perfect one and it's a standard for this kind of situation.