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Paul Therrien wrote:
I am sorry, this must be very frustrating, but if you chain to a file
and there is no record with that exact key you do not get (or ought
not get) an escape message. You should simply have a record not
found condition.

I feel there is more to this issue than you are stating.

Uh, the key phrase here is "ought not get." Sort of like "should" in the IBM Pollyanna Principle.

I feel rather like Gus Grissom did after he was rescued from his sinking Mercury spacecraft. Did you hear about what they found, decades later, when Liberty Bell 7 was raised?

Very strong evidence that *the hatch just blew*

Working on a testcase. If the problem is easily duplicated under testcase conditions (definitely NOT guaranteed where weird runtime bugs are concerned), I'll publish it right here, and look into opening a PMR about it.

--
JHHL

"Machines should work; people should think"
-- The IBM Pollyanna Principle

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