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From: macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Filemaker Pro stupidity
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Date: 13 Mar 91 01:02:09 GMT
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In article <200@claris.com>, skip@claris.com (Brian Schipper) writes:
     (in response to an earlier posting of mine)
|> 
|> Thank you for your comments.  While the behavior you describe may be annoying
|> to you, it is the same way that FileMaker II behaved.  It was not changed in
|> FileMaker Pro.  While we would have liked to change it so that the records
|> would remain sorted after the find,  we were somewhat limited by the
|> existing architecture of FileMaker II.  In order for us to retain the sort
|> order after every find, we would need to automatically perform a sort
|> after every find operation.  This would slow down finding dramatically
|> and would be annoying to some users.  Hopefully in the future we will be
|> able to change the architecture to make this work the way you would like.
|> 
|> I understand your frustration, and I assure you that we are listening to
|> your comments.
|> 
|> Brian
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I appreciate the response from Brian.  However, I've gone back and double-checked and verified my claim, using the same database, the same sort, and the same find.  In FM II after a find, the records are still sorted in the original order.  In FM Pro they are not.
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