Protecting lookups to free records

[Nancy Palmquist]

Mike Schwartz (PC Support & Services, Appleton, WI) wrote:

>      I was having a converstation this afternoon with another programmer,
> and we were debating whether or not we should be protecting a lookup
> to a free record.  We both usually do it, but the lookup wizard in
> filePro doesn't offer the "protect" option when you setup a lookup
> free, and I don't believe the wizard has ever offered that.
> 
>      Is that something that I should add to the wishlist, or have many of
> you asked for that in the past?  I'm running filePro on SCO Unix,
> both are 5.0.5
> 
>      The wizard is nice, especially for the new filePro trainees I am
> working with, but it has one other shortcoming that bothers me:
> 
>      I would also like the wizard to be able to handle a lookup with a
> complex embedded variable, like:
> 
> lookup art=artfile k=(@rn&za&zd) i=A -bx
> 
>      Have any of you asked for this on the wishlist?
> 
You can do complex embedded variables - 5.0 filepro.

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