Why?

[Kenneth Brody]

"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:49:33AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > George Simon wrote:
> > > I mentioned it because you made a point of saying that rclerk works with one
> > > record at a time and rreport works with sets of records.
> >
> > That's because you keep mentioning "why doesn't it crash in *clerk when
> > it crashed in *report".
> 
> And to get really strictly technical, this distinction isn't actually
> accurate, is it?  From the viewpoint of a processing table, one one
> record *is* being worked with at a time: the current record.
> 
> Could you expand a little on the distinction you're drawing, Ken?

Yes, you processing is working on a single record at a time, but *report
itself is working on sets of records.  This includes multiple break levels,
and grand totals as well, not to mention the sort/select processing that
has been run as well.  There are more "behind the scenes" things going on
in *report than there are in *clerk.

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