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- "RECORD RE-NUMBER HELP"
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- "This function changes the user-assigned record number of the record"
- "whose number was flashing on the browse screen. You enter a new num-"
- "ber and the program refers to that record by the new number."
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- "Re-numbering a record may not be a good idea in files with no user-"
- "assigned indexes; others may depend on the old number to find that"
- "record and, if you change it, the record may be lost."
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- "In name-address files where the u/a record number is used to connote"
- "the proper alphabetic position of the record the numbers may change"
- "constantly. Such a file would have other indexes to identify records."