Baffling "System error"

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> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:55 PM
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> Subject: Baffling "System error"
> 
> I'm running a report on 4.8 that takes a total and places it 
> in a record in another file.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that when I do a lookup to the file 
> on an index that uses two fields I get a "System error has 
> occurred" and gives me an "Invalid argument" referencing the 
> files map.
> 
> What is so puzzling is that I do the exact same lookup to the 
> exact same record in the exact same file, but from a report 
> in another file and that one works no problem.
> 
> I've already checked field lengths and edits and they are all 
> identical.  But for some reason one gives me the invalid 
> argument while the other does the lookup and completes all 
> processing.  What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Boaz

Without seeing the code, I can only guess.

Are you doing a lookup to the record you are sitting?

Have you tried locked() to see of the record you trying to look at is
locked?

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting