In order to use SEEK(), you have to set the index order first anyway; so you can set the index DESC and achieve the same result as SEEK with descending order.

Alan

>The differences:
>- With SEEK you can search with descending order ( for found the bottom ),
>SEEK() have not this possibility.
>- With SEEK() you can use the a field reference without the alias, with SEEK you cannot do this
>

>* table1  id
>* table2  id
>
>select table1
>SEEK id IN table2  && is SEEK table2.id IN table2
>SEEK(id,'Table2')  && is SEEK(table1.id,'Table2')
>
>When they use only the workarea with names of alias random, this becomes important.