Associated fields and @AF

[Chad McWilliams]

> Because @AF *is not set by filepro* unless you sort on the 
> associated field?  :-)  What @AF says is "which of the 
> associated fields in the group is the one responsible for 
> *this* appearance of this record in the temporary output sort 
> file?"  If you don't sort by the associated field, it doesn't 
> fill that it.  I'm surprised it's 1, I'd expect it to be 0... 
> (which would throw an error, and thus be better).
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
> Jay R. Ashworth                                               

OK, sorry if I'm being stupid, but I still don't get why it would have
to be sorted, when what I'm dealing with is within a single record.  I
guess something is just not clicking in my brain.  Fortunately it
happens enough that I don't get alarmed anymore when I see the smoke
coming from my ears.  :)

You and Jeff are correct, though.  Once I sorted it by d0), the value of
@AF corresponded to the correct value every time.

I guess I'll just live with *DO IT AND LIKE IT*, until I understand
better what's going on. :)

-Chad McWilliams