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From: Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com>
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Subject: Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:42:16 +1300
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In article <1lcizy0.vpv54s159q3kfN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

> E. Appeldoorn <ursus.kirk@ziggo.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Also may I humbly suggest to stop comparing Filemaker to anything you
> > have previously learned. If I was to learn something new after all those
> > years of using filemaker I would also struggle. But resisting by 
> > shouting that the new program makes no sense would get me nowhere.
> 
>      Point taken and I think I've given a wrong impression by bringing
> up my current database program. I only mentioned it to point out that,
> as old and clunky as it is (it ran on a Mac Plus after all), it did what
> the user told it to do 
<snip>

FileMaker does what you tell it to ... the problem is you don't know
what you're doing and would rather complain about FileMaker than learn
to use it. When people try to give you the answer you say it's silly.

Helpful Harry  :o)