>>AHA! I *thought* Rushmore was quite clever. So why the delay opening the
>>.DBFs and .CDXs?

>Loading buffers with prefetch data so that after initial load, operations are
>faster.

Sorry, you've lost me. I thought you said it only fetched binary tree nodes
as needed. (I thought prefetch was what happens in Pentium II CPUs).


>In regard to your idea of removing the deleted tag, this will hurt performance >if deleted is set to "on".

Don't worry, it will be SET DELETED OFF throughout (except for
occasional housekeeping).

>Open the tables at startup and keep them open until shutdowm.

Well this would have been possible under 2.6, although I don't like doing it,
but it's impossible under VFP because I am using private data sessions for a
lot of the screens, so the user can have several open at once.