SELECT (was RE: Problems with Sort/Selection processing onassociated fields.)

[John Esak]

I thought so... But why didn't you let them try it??  :-)

JE
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 1:54 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: SELECT (was RE: Problems with Sort/Selection 
> processing onassociated fields.)
> 
> Quoting John Esak (Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:25:42 -0500):
> 
> > You can only use SELECT once on the select table.  Well, 
> that is to say
> > rather, you can only select the record one time while on a 
> sort/select prc
> > table.
> >
> > (I do not know what would happen if you did a lookup dash 
> to yourself over
> > and over and hit a SELECT each time... Something for 
> someone more curious
> > than me to try. :-)
> [...]
> 
> SELECT is closer to DELETE than PRINT.  That is, it is a 
> deferred action.
> The record is marked for selection, which will take place 
> once sort/select
> processing is complete for that record.  So, repeatedly using 
> lookup-dash
> and SELECT will end up only selecting the last record moved to.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
>