Michael Madigan wrote: > The worst Foxpro programming I've ever seen was when > the nitwit had a relation set to recno() > This does have uses and the best example I can think of is when one of our trainers was updating some data in a table using foxpro 2.6 (She wasn't a programmer - enough said). She ended up replacing all the 8 character primary keys with blanks using the replace wizard. This was done in the afternoon so the backup for this table from the previous day would be no good as the system had been updated. This command was perfect for this situation as fortunately there were no new records in the table. After restoring the previous days backup to another folder:
use yesterday\a_sname alias old && yesterdays table select 0 use a_sname alias sname set relation to recn() into old replace all sn_account with old.sn_account Hey presto you have all your PK's back. Anyone think of a better way of doing that? Peter _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.