Error when deleting the last record out of a file

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:33:48AM -0800, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> > "Must fill" isn't an attribute of columns; it's an atttribute of
> > screen fields. Since there can be more than one screen that contains
> > a field, and "must fill" is independently set on each, you cannot,
> > in fact, safely make that assumption in the abstract, no.
>
> You could, however just choose a field that "must" have information in
> it in a valid record. @cd comes to mind for example.

This is true.

Now, just to win the argument (:-), I'll point out that even that won't
work if you're creating a new record, and want to make sure you didn't
run out of disk space.

And isn't there some place you can look to see *why* a lookup to a
record that's supposed to exist failed, which you'll be deprived of it
you use this shortcut?

Cheers,
-- jra
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