great new wish list item, but how will it really work?

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:00:57AM -0500, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:24 AM
> > To: filePro mailing list
> > Subject: great new wish list item, but how will it really work?
> > 
> > Joe Chason submitted a great wish list item. I voted for it being a
> > "must-have". He suggests a new command like COPY called MOVE. 
> > It would do
> > just that, MOVE a filePro record from one database to another 
> > and DELETE it
> > from the original file. The difference being that system 
> > maintained fields
> > would be "maintained" across the move. That is @cd, @ub, etc, 
> > would not be
> > lost. Very important for archiving... but, the question 
> > arises... How can
> > you maintain the @cd for example in the new file, when the 
> > record needs an
> > @cd for that file, itself??
> > 
> > I often look at my archive invoice file by @cd to see which 
> > were the very
> > last records just added to it and on what day...  How would I 
> > be able to do
> > this if the original @cd was kept with the new MOVE command.  JOe?
> > 
> > I want/need your suggested command, as you do, but how can we 
> > deal with the
> > reality of how filePro works?  Just lose the @cd of the 
> > MOVE'd record in the
> > new file??
> > 
> > John
> 
> To your wish add @md (Moved Date) and @mb (Moved By) ....

forget it, if you change the structure of key file you will put this
wish so far on the backburner you may as well kill it, as happens to
others with this requirement.
 
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