We need a referendum... on MEMO...

[Bill Randall]

> WRIT... (as you say)... therefore, I started about a year go doind the
> following to combat what I thought was a glitch....
>
>
>    then: memo 4 edit;  write
>
> This way, it doesn't matter if they press BREAK after that or not. It may
> not be the best solution because the user may think he will lose his 
> changes
> by pressing BREAK... but in my systems, he won't. Lots of times the MEMO 
> or
> part of it which was modified does not even appear on the screen, so I
> thought/think it better to assure that writes get done regardless.
>
> John


You do realize that the 'write' after the 'memo' will write any changes made 
to fields as well so that if the user does really want to press break to 
restore the old values of any fields, it will not do as the user may wish.

Bill