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>>I spent a fair amount of my misspent youth working in cryptology.
>Hi Ed:
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>That is so true. I am working on another idea - where I store update statements in a field and then copy the fields to a prog file which can then be compiled. All I have to do after that is to call the program whch will execute and rebuild a table with authorized values in it.
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>I am still working ont it. does this make sense?

Honestly, not really. The fascination with extracting and creating code and embedding it with data dynamically simply doesn't really appeal to me. If the update code is stored in a memo, I can attack that memo.

It'd make more sense to use macro expansion or scripting to drive the operation IMO.