Jim,

I guess, you didn't read my whole message or I didn't explain the problem well. The problem is, what the first time (when the cursor is not yet created), I don't get a "Numerical overflow" problem, as I should. This is a problem, I was trying to detect, and therefore these big numbers are intentional.

Do you have ideas or could you replicate the problem?

>What am I missing here????
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>How does 1000 fit in a N(02) field?... or 10000 in a N(4,1) field???
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>If you're gonna put code like this out for detecting a problem, the some commentary saying what the objective is might be helpful.
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>good luck