>>However. I never use XREF, not it's @ cousin, as they seem too >>much fuss. What's wrong with grwowing your own handles, then you >>can check, length and overwriting, and you know where you are? >>XREF just seems a level of indirection that can create confusion >>and error... As this original post would imply... >> >>jonathan .jonathan: >I agree totally. I just never could get into XREF thing. I like, as you >say, "growing your own". >Ted ==================== I like XREF. You still have to make your own handles. It just allow you to pretend that the handle is an array. I build arrays of records using XREF and it makes life much easier. W.