>Michael Vealey wrote...
>
>We are migrating piecemeal to native mode. So far, we haven't had
>many major problems (knock on simulated woodgrain laminate) but the
>one that's taking the largest chunks out of our posteriors is invalid
>ASCII digit errors.
>
>It seems that when we get a not found condition on a DBGET, random
>garbage is left in the record space. This is understandable but our
>old classic didn't seem to mind. The new box is giving us fits! All
>the programs running in compatibality mode handle this just fine but
>kick it up to native mode and WHAM!
 
 
It has been a while since we converted, but ...
CM zeroed out memory when stach was initialized.
NM did/does/will not. Lazy I guess.
 
Elbert