>>See Question about the REINDEX command Thread #1003134 Message #1003134 that confirms Sergey's comment.
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>Interesting though
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>My database has 293,000 records with 54 indexes - original size of cdx file 176,084 kb following a pack and reindex
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>I ran a disp status to a text ile - imported the text file into a dbf - wrote a program to delete the index file and rebuild based on my database
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>Resultant size of cdx file exactly the same - but I ha to prove it to mysel!!
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>Is Sergey ever wrong?????

Out of currently 31917 Sergey's messages I saw ~ 15 wrong.