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  1. The secret NewRecord command

    by , 8-Feb-2010 at 09:00 AM (Development Team Blog)
    A well known old trick in DataFlex is the [I]Move 0 to Recnum[/I] trick. It's been used with character mode DataFlex and Visual DataFlex for so long that nobody probably remembers where it came from, and I'm not sure it was ever really a documented or intended feature in the beginning. Nonetheless it became a fully supported technique at some point.

    Basically, if you ever wanted to create a new record loosely based on data from an existing record, you could use this trick to simplify ...
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