Subject Re: Follow Record to New Position
From Ken Mayer <dbase@nospam.goldenstag.net>
Date Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:12:07 -0800
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

On 11/14/2022 11:11 PM, Michael Lind wrote:
> Hi all.  There was a menu item in good old dBaseIV "Follow Record To New
> Position" which, when turned off left the cursor on in the position I
> was at instead of taking it to the new indexed location when the indexed
> field value is changed.  I can't find anything in 2019 which does the
> same.  Is there something I can set from the command window to turn off
> follow?
I don't believe such a thing exists in the current version of dBASE, and
hasn't been since moving to Windows ... once the record meets the index
conditions, the index is automatically updated and the record is
rearranged to match.

Ken

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