Jim,

If you read the help file, RECCOUNT() has always reported physical records in a TABLE unaffected by SET DELETED and SET FILTER.

_tally has always reported the number of records in a SELECT result set, which FoxPro may determine the fastest way of giving you the result is to internally set a filter.

>George,
>
>I would agree that, because it is "by design" it is not a "bug". But it is lousy design, to have any command or function which *can* have an *AMBIGUOUS* result. Such things just shouldn't be delivered.