Hi, Jim
If you have not gotten an answer to this, could you explain a little more what you are trying to do and I will try to help.

Beth
>I hope this gets through in the right forum/category - looks like Michel & co. are changing things on-the-fly AGAIN!!!
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>Where do I find, in VFP Help, the proper "rules" for omitting arguments (parameters) in function calls.
>Comes up for me with ASCAN(), which turns out not to seem to mean "omit" as defined in my dictionary but rahter "omit" in some specific VFP definition.
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>Thanks