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  2. From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
  4. Subject: Re: a FM Pro question
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.161337.26268@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 16:13:37 GMT
  7. References: <lsfu-031192134855@roab11.med.utah.edu.> <1992Nov3.233046.10495@ncar.ucar.edu>
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  10. Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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  12. Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
  13. Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
  14.  
  15. charlesa@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Charles Albrecht) writes:
  16.  
  17. >It's possible to access individual elements from other files with lookup...
  18. >This isn't what you're looking for, though.  It can't be done in 
  19. >version 1.x of FM Pro.  How about it, verison 2 owners?  Has Claris
  20. >decided to give us a way to access repeating fields like we would an 
  21. >array?
  22.  
  23.     Nope. This is not the purpose of repeating fields. The only function
  24. that I have been able to acertain for the use of these fields is for
  25. summing up a column of numbers that doesn't need to be searched, sorted,
  26. or anything other then summed. Since this almost never happens, I
  27. usually recommend that you stay away from repeating fields.
  28.  
  29. --
  30. -Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
  31.               "No sir, I didn't like it."
  32.