Informix "rowid" question

I have a question regarding the use of the rowid field and how it is used in both OnLine and SE. The application that I work on is being ported from a networked database system, which carries the concept of sequential reads. The server that we will be interfacing the Informix DB with is ISQL based, eliminating the possibilty of using cursors. The concept of creating a temporary table and using the internally created rowid field seems like a viable way to control this through the application, i.e.: for ( i = 1; i < maxrows; i++ ){ select * from "table" where rowid = i The things I need to know are: 1) Is rowid, as created by a temporary table, guaranteed to be sequential? 2) Is there a difference between the way OnLine and SE handle rowids? 3) If neither of these options hold water, is there an alternative method to handle sequential selects? Thanks! Jim Stringer -- ************************************************************************** * Jim Stringer || AT&T Network Systems at Middletown NJ * * (jws@hrmso.att.com) || * **************************************************************************