TOP REPLY: Re: Blank Record

[Harold]

Hi JP,

We have a birthday coming up.  Happy Birthday.  Sure wish we could 
subtract the years from our age.  I am finding it takes longer to use my 
memory.  I hope you do not have that problem.  Thanks for the answer.

Harold


On 1/16/2014 1:58 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Harold propounded (on Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:42:07PM -0600):
> | Hi Filepro Users,
> |
> | I have a question.Is it normal for Filepro to have a blank record at the
> | end of the group of records.
> |
> | We have 1947 men in our file that lists every man we have found in the
> | U.S. that served on the Destroyer U.S.S. McCaffery DDE860.That means
> | that there should be 1947 records in our file.
> |
> | But, we have 1948 records in the file, the last one being blank.When we
> | add a new member, the data for this man is entered, such as address,
> | city and state.When we have entered all data, we hit the ESC button to
> | record the data. The data is recorded and the screen shows the next
> | record, which is blank.
> |
> | I do a control-C to move the cursor down to the "Enter Selection," at
> | the bottom of the screen.However, the record number shows 1948 instead
> | of 1947.
> |
> | If I do add a new man, he is given the record number 1948, but before I
> | add a new man, how can I prevent the record number from showing 1948?
>
> Sure, there's often a blank last record. So what?  It's in the freechain;
> thus, as you observe, it gets used for a new record.
>