On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:21 -0500, Geoffrey Mitchell wrote:
> This doesn't work (at least on UV).  The sample happens before the sort, 
> not after. 
> 
> Otherwise, however, it's an ingenious idea.  Incidentally, you could do 
> the same thing (at least in UV) without creating a new dictionary, by 
> using EVAL.
> 
> i.e.,
> SELECT MYFILE BY EVAL "RND(@TIME)"
> 
> That way you don't need an extra bogus dictionary in every file you want 
> to do this on.

This sounded good, but OpenQM complains "Sort item cannot be a literal
value".

I get the same error when trying to use it in an I descriptor.

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Dave Walker
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