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I have never used work files, so I would have to do some research on that, 
not that I am opposed to such a venture, but I was hoping to resuse some of 
my existing skills.

The whole reason behind this question is that I have to create a subfile 
that will display based on what salesman number the user enters, YTD 
hardgood sales (which is contained within the customer master file) and then 
Cylinder rent which would be a cumulative amount from the line item file 
(which contains 1.3 million records) and then a calculated field showing the 
total, this has to be done for each different customer number assigned to 
the salesman, and to top it off, I need the data displayed in descending 
order LOL

Pulling the info from the customer master is easy enough, but I would have 
to loop through the line item file hundreds or even thousands of times to 
get the totals.

I thought about creating a logical file for each salesman in customer order 
but maintenance would be heavy, as each time we add a new salesman I have to 
create a new logical file and then modify the code.

I suppose I could create a logical joined file with the pertinent info and 
then key in on the salesman and then customer, but I am not sure if that is 
the best answer.

I am open ears to anyone with any suggestions :)


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