Correct. I believe this changed when Panorama 2 came out in 1991. The original select statement did not support formulas, you could only select based on the current field. I don’t remember the original syntax and I don’t have a Panorama 1.x manual handy. The intention was that retaining the oldselect statement for a while would allow time to transition – ultimately the transition period allowed was more than 25 years before Panorama X finally dropped support for oldselect.