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Only Dennis Malen would say something like:
> To Bob Stockler,
> 
> I've been a programmer since 1979. I have been programming in filePro for 

[much deleted and irrelevant "factoidia"]

"We've done this, we've done that..."  Feeling defensive much?

And yet you still can't comprehend Ken's simple statement that @KEY is your
problem.  Hell, I don't even -use- @KEY and I "get" that point from his
multiple repetitions.  Which part of the four characters confuses you:  @,
K, E, or Y?

> The current question I am raising on the list is probably not a run of the 
> mill filePro question. It involves a higher level of filePro knowledge then 
> most have. Ken & Bruce easily fit that ticket.
> 
> I can easily understand your reluctance to get involved as you probably have 
> nothing to offer at this point.

*laugh*  Dennis, Bob's probably forgotten more than you've ever known about
programming.  You're shooting at the wrong target--and with dud shells, to
boot.  That's absolutely comedic.  Bob would not only have been done
several days ago, he would likely not have encountered the problem in the
first place.

> I conclude by letting you all know that I love filePro and am probably one 
> of its greatest supporters. 

Ohyeah, that sends a -great- signal to the community and prospective
members thereof. "filePro -- So simple to use, anyone can do it...and spend
the next five days debugging it because they didn't understand what they
were flat-out told multiple times."

> time people in the office who also program in filePro. In answer to your 
> question, NO! I would never give up programming. It has made us too 

He didn't suggest you give up programming entirely.  Or maybe he did.  I
can't speak to that.  What -I- read seemed to say, "When you obviously have
no clue what's going on, perhaps it's time to hire a professional that does
it in their sleep and knows how to avoid this..."

> In any event, we do know our limits have on occasion used other 
> outside programmers including filePro.

Well now might be a Good Time[tm], as it seems you're not even -listening-
to Ken.  If you can't be bothered to listen and pay atttention, why ask?

> In any event, if I can ever be of help to you in the future please let me 
> know. We are just a little more sophisticated than most.

I often find that broken code and unexpected results are a sign of
increased sophistication--hey, if it works for Vista's voice recognition...

You're right, Dennis.  As usual.  Keep doing it your way, by all means.
I'm sure Ken, Bruce, and everyone else have nothing better to do than fix
your problem for you, gratis, after several days of you not listening
thoroughly.  Surely they don't have anything better to do with their
time, right?  

But hey--you know what you're doing!  Then uhm, where's the problem?  Oh,
that's right...I remember now; you're more sophisticated than Ken and
Bruce, not to mention the others.  Right.  Someone remind me which parallel
reality I stepped into, please?

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