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Re: 4D Field Incrementing

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From: Matthew Mashyna
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:05
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I'm not sure I fully understand what your trying to do. If you only need
to assign a unique number to you clients starting with 1000 then why not
use something like:

[Clients]Client_Num:= sequence number([Clients]) + 1000

The sequence number is always unique -- until it wraps bitwise.


Matt
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:05:41 -0500 
From: Matthew Mashyna <mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: 4D Field Incrementing
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