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I don't know if this will help, but maybe you could not define the field as
a date field and define it as a character field with an edit word such as
('  /  /    ').  Then initialize it to blanks in your program then move in
the date field when  you're ready.






"heba refaie" <heba_refaie@xxxxxxxxxxx>@midrange.com on 07/18/2003 09:10:35
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Hi all

This may be an easy question ...

I have a field on a display file that refers to db field of type date, when
showing the screen for the first time the field will show 01/01/0001...I
want to display *blanks... hope that there is a keyword  on dsp
file to do so....



Thanks in adavnce
Heba

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