Ah. It just hit me where the problem is. I should not have said that you have to set the order first. I should have said that you can easily set the order first.

Alan

>Alan,
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>The third parameter of SEEK() is for the index tag, so there is no need to SET ORDER first. You *can* SET ORDER if you have a particular situation (such as DESCENDING)...but for normal situations, there is no need.
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>>1. Set order to tag someindex in 'sometable'
>>2. ? Seek(cSeekValue, 'sometable')
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>>If you don't do step 1, you get an error in step 2. So, you can just as easily do step 1 as:
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>>Set Order to tag someindex in 'sometable' DESC.
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>>Alan