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Ken posted:

> > Did you know that if you had an invalid edit within your
> > processing table and tried to view dummy fields (F6 + D)
> > none will show? Well, now you do!
> 
> Well, I didn't know that.  Did you ever report it to fpsupport?
> 

Never thought of it as a BUG   :(


> > Give it a try. Open any of your processing tables,
> > define a dummy variable with a non-existing edit, press
> > F6 and then D ... No dummy fields are shown !!!
> 
> Works just fine here, showing unknown edits as "*":
> 
>    1  -------   -   -   -
>         . If:
>         Then: xx(10,*)
>    2  -------   -   -   -
>         . If:
>         Then: yy(10,mdyy/)
>    3  -------   -   -   -
>         . If:
>         Then: zz(20,badedit)
> 
> F6/D shows:
> 
>   XX(10,*)
>   YY(10,MDYY/)
>   ZZ(20,*)
> 
> dcabe 5.6.06D9, 5.0.13D9, and 4.8.13D9
> 

OK, now try moving the bad edit to the first line   :)

They do vanish using SCO 5.0.6 filePro version 5.0.13R4
and Linux 5.6.06R4


Regards,

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