>My guess is that an updating function would need to be written which opens
>the old records 1 at a time, and copies the data to the new record
>structure, and adding appropriate defaults for the new data fields.  But how
>would you do this if you had to save the data back into the same database?

You can just use DmResizeRecord to make the record larger, using a 
pointer mapped to the new record structure, and fill in the new 
defaults.

Regards,
Steve Mann
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