Terry, I think I understand that the first pass, top to bottm, puts the dbf into an
array. Once there, the array can be addressed much like a spreadsheet.
Thus: repl nFieldTwo with myAr[1]+myAr[2]+....+myAr[6] && Field being summed

But I realize that I just wanted to make sure that I had not missed a new command,
with all of the new stuff happening with VFP --

one that already allows vfp to address a dbf more like a spreadsheet
-- from scratch, without having
to first pump it into an array --
such that a request for the value of a field
could be combined with recno(). so that ? MyField.recno()-6 might return the value
of MyField but six records prior. On the other hand, Fred Taylor notes that
the go command is already very fast.

Thanks
Steve