>Timothy, et. al. (via Çetin)-
>
>>
>>>can you use the locate cmd to start at end of a dbf and proceed backwards?
>>>
>>>If you set your index descending yes :)
>>>Cetin
>>
>>Something like (untested) :
>>

>>If val(sys(21))>0
>> lcDescending = iif(descending(val(sys(21)),'myAlias'), ;
>>	' ASCENDING ',' DESCENDING ')
>> Set order to tag (order('myAlias')) &lcDescending
>>endif
>>

>
>Please review this KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q165410 before using this technique. If you're depending on buffering and using a grid, this bug has the nasty side effect of not respecting the buffering let alone the data session.
>
>In my case I found it worked to simply scan to find the previous value, but I had a guaranteed small data set.

Nancy,
Right. However my technique in real production is only used for 'descending' via a dummy constant key :

index on .t. tag RevOrder descending && Any constant expression as key

So any operation that needs 'reverse' moving use this order whilst other do not need an order.
Cetin