last update using get next from a different file

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Wed Sep 24 14:04:30 PDT 2014


On 9/24/2014 4:02 PM, Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list wrote:
> I'm resending this because I think I only replied to Ken last time.
>
> Okay I get what invy(@ud) is but since it returns the exact same date for
> like 20+ thousand records and that's just impossible in my system, I'm
> wondering how it handles a getnext command. Could it always be reporting
> the date from the initial record of the lookup and not getting the @ud of
> records obtained with a getnext or getprev command.
[...]

No, "lookupname(@UD)" returns the update date for the *current* record in 
the lookup file.  Add "!@UD" to a screen in the other file, and browse it in 
dclerk.  See what it shows.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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