Multiple lookups to the same file with different aliases?

[Mike Schwartz]

>> How common is it to need to have two lookups open to the same file at
>> the same time?

>That I don't know.
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>KenBrody at BestWeb dot net        spamtrap: <g8ymh8uf001 at sneakemail.com>

     Based on my programming experiences working with code written not only
my myself, but by at least 50 different filePro developers, I'd say that
it's REAL common.

     This very minute, I'm modifying a header-detail style order entry
prc.input table that was written over 10 years ago by a group of other
filePro programmers, and I counted that the detail lines are opened under no
less than six (6) different aliases.  The inventory master file is opened
under four (4) different aliases.

     If multiple aliasing were (somehow) to "break" in a future version, I'd
say that at least 10% of the code I've seen would stop working, and in most
cases it would be the most important code a customer has, like their order
entry systems.

Mike Schwartz