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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> To: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>

> On 8/12/2011 3:14 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> [...]
> >>> Q) What is @SK?
> [...]
> > So far as I know, the answer is "SK is a system field which contains a
> > text label of the keyboard key used to exit the last field which was
> > exited".
> 
> Just curious as to where you came up with that definition, as it is not
> correct. (At least, not in the general sense. At the start of @WLF, it
> will fit that description, however.)

This is every word the online manual has to say about @SK:

"""
Special key can be used with INKEY, but avoid INKEY, it is CPU intensive, use WAITKEY instead.

"@sk" is used with when-processing. When-processing fills this field with the special key-label of the key last pressed.

Browse lookups will also pass SAVE, BRKY and ENTR to @sk if users press any of these 3 keys while the highlighted bar is visible.
"""

That seems pretty compatible with what I asserted, especially when you 
combine it with my followup:

> > I expect it to be valid at the top of input processing and in a WLF block;
> > I don't expect it to be defined anywhere else, though it might still contain
> > a value set somewhere else. In particular, I don't expect it to be valid
> > in a WEF block.

On reading it -- and it's *miserably* badly written, BTW -- I have to 
assume that the distinction you're looking for is that it is *not*, in fact,
guaranteed to be valid at the top of input processing, after a SAVE.  

Cheers,
-- jra
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