system command and dummy fields

[Bob Stockler]

GCC Consulting wrote (on Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39:52AM -0400):

| Dennis,
| 
| Who is controlling access to the record involved?  Do your screens have
| passwords?
| 
| Since you seem to be using a record to hold this data, one could add value
| checking to processing to insure that no improper values appear.
| 
| However, if one wanted to completely safe, the same logic should be added to
| the output processing just in case someone figured out how to access the
| record without any processing.
[snip]

I can access filePro "key" files with a GAWK program.  It doesn't
modify the record header when a field is edited.

Bob

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