Isn't it a legacy dBase index type? (http://www.delphi32.com/info_facts/faq/faq_10.asp)
According to hackfox 7, " Back in the FoxBase and FoxPro 1.0 days, (it was) useful for temporarily creating a list of distinct values in a table"
Stuart
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Testi [mailto:atesti At fabtrol DO.T com]
> Sent: 30 April 2004 16:46
> To: profoxtech@leafe.com
> Subject: RE: Where did 'Unique' index type go to?
>
> I wonder if the creation of the UNIQUE type was a marketing idea, a
> developer suggested idea, or something else. I never saw the
> need for it.
> I expected someday to come across a problems that the use of
> a UNIQUE would
> solve, but I never did, or at least never consider using the
> UNIQUE as the
> solution. Oh well any good product, which VFP definitely is,
> has a few
> wrong turns in it.
>
> Anthony
>
>
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