Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Mar 7 15:04:56 CST 2014
Because MS BASICs (including VBA) and Access have never had an intrinsic DWORD (aka unsigned long) data type. The failure to introduce one into BASIC with the advent of Windows has always struck me as strange since they are at the core of the Windows API -- Stuart On 7 Mar 2014 at 13:27, John W Colby wrote: > Bill, > > Correct me if I am wrong but what is going on is that the > autoincrement is a SIGNED long integer, i.e. +/- 2^31. I never, even thoug > understood why they used a signed long instead of an unsigned long but > it is what it is. >