>VFPT has made your first thought, but not the second ?
>
>When the VFPT has planned the syntax of FLUSH could have thought that putting
>a low level file handle into the command then it became ambiguous ( first thought ),
>but the clause IN removes this ambiguity ( second thought ).

Ah, I see. Actually, they were probably thinking more down Sergey's line, that something opened with FOPEN() should be flushed with FFLUSH().

Of course, I don't know what they were actually thinking -- I'm just guessing here.