>>>I am using VFP3.0b for Windows.
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>>>Very strange thing happened. I joined two tables in the data environment of the report writer (to do a very simple report). Instead of the usual join it did a OUTER JOIN!
>>>
>>>Has anybody noticed this behaviour? Is this a bug, feature or by design?
>>>
>>>I could exploit this...
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>>Actually, you set relationships in DE and they really work as you described.
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>That is very strange.

No, it's normal behaviour for temp relationships. If you have record match you get all of them, if you don't have match you still move pointer along parent table.