File NEED, PUT (Was: Update Out of Sync)

[Chris Sharman]

>If you place NEED on a file statement, is the PUT suppose to be executed
>even when no data has been changed for the record?

My understanding is that this is used, usually on secondary files, to force
creation of a missing record. According to the docs, it can also be used on
primary files, presumably to force creation of a number of copies if they
don't exist (eg NEED 3). NEED 1 on the primary will never work, because if
the primary doesn't exist, there's no record complex.

Should/would NEED 1 force an update of an existing unchanged primary record?
According to the docs, it should, so you might expect a "record has changed
since you found it" error - maybe there's some odd behaviour here, if you
don't see that.

Chris



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