>Hi!
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>The most strange is that I was able to reroduce this... Only once! Next time whatever I did, I got correct results for both VFP6 and VFP7.
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>Seems it is dependent on some sort of development environment nusianses, like internal query of records from PJX file, for example :).
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>Did you tried to test it in run-time?
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>If this does not exists in run-time - no resons to worry about. This is not a big problem when running this just from command Window in VFP development environment.

And I think it happens in command window. When you type DIME{space}, Intellisense kicks in - and since it's (got parts) written in VFP, it locates a record in foxcode.dbf, and that affects the _tally. It becomes 1? Well, one record matches DIME, right?