>>>Anyway, I am sure that a lot of fox "dinosaurs" <g> continue to use SCATTER/GATHER on a dayly basis :-)
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>>I use SCATTER/GATHER in lots of places, but rarely to MEMVARS. It's usually to arrays or objects for me. So is that pre/post the dinosaur era ? < bg >
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>Post dinosaur, I think.
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>It's a great way to copy a record to another open table, and its also a way to create an object to bind controls to, or for a business object...
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>Other uses?

SCATTER ... NAME is now even more useful since you can do a SQL INSERT using that object.

I also use SCATTER NAME to compare records:

*position to record
SCATTER NAME oX1
* position to other record
SCATTER NAME oX2
lSame = COMPOBJ(oX1,oX2)