Hi Terry,...
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>But if a select attempts to open a file thats not vailable - then it is an error. If ON ERROR don't catch it - then the next best thing is OPEN DIALOG. When we test our apps and the OPEN DIALOG pops up - we should fix the error or simplify the paradigm.

Have you even SEEN which dialog we're talking about here Terry. You seem to think it is the GETFILE() dialog. It is not! It simple has "Open" in the title bar and has buttons OK and CANCEL. No file name, NO user-discernible info AT ALL!!!

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>I have a hard time understanding why many of us are SELECTING from DBFs. Typically, when we do that, we bloat the CDX (I've seen an index on every field). SEEK is lower level- seek is faster - seek does need a result cursor - and when planning an app using seek, the discipline seems to force more normalicy and optimization - plus - we don't have to index on every field!

Fine, that's YOUR style. But the fact of the matter is that you are one of the minority who did not go for the big MS/VFP push to move to SQL styled processing some time back. Many many did, and I don't think you can blame them for using the tools as promoted for "best practise" (a term, frankly, that I loathe)

Jim
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