At 08:44 PM 6/23/2000 -0400, Russell Bevers wrote:
>I get errors if I define my detail datasets prior to the master datasets
>that their search items reference.  Is there any way around this?
>
>If not, why is this limitation imposed?

KISS
In the "good" old days when computers had less disc space than we now have
main memory, one-pass compilers were quite common.

Many people follow the practice of defining all manual masters followed by
all automatic masters followed by all details and thus never run into the
problems you are encountering.

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