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>>>We may start doing replace command from the middle of the file. My colleague just "fixed" the problem by placing go top before doing this process.
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>>>BTW, she is not aware (yet), that it was me, who added this WHILE condition. I wanted to give users ability to stop the long command...
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>>I always forget that WHILE clause forces a command to start from the current position of the record pointer in the table.
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>Regardless of SCOPE? I forgot about it too. So, I guess, she was right in her solution, and I did introduce this problem.

Geeze, I assumed you realized/remembered that. That capability is really powerful on an indexed/ordered table.