Re: file access problem.....

[booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

How would you be accessing the key? If it is from an interactive display 
screen then when you make the display screen, make a hidden field for the 
relative record number and chain by record number.  If it is from some 
sort of batch program using detail records then you're pretty well stuck.
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Curtisda@aol.com
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08/02/2000 01:18 PM
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Will someone please confirm or discredit my thinking about ....adding or 
accessing a file with non-unique key

If I add two records with the same key..... because the key is not 
specified, it will allow this..

When I go to access that key with a chain... there is not guarentee that I 
will get the first record added.. it is random which record I will get.. 
because of the way the AS/400 stores data.....

Will someone weigh in on this.....
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