>That's true. I did my own kind of indexing. I was packing data to get more onto a single disk and knew how many records I was storing per sector for a given table.
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>The worst was that you had to allocate file space up front and if you guessed wrong about how large a file would turn out to be, it was a big hassle. I eventually wrote a configuration program that asked the user what the maximum number of records for each of a number of quantities would be. I created the files based on 1.5 * the number specified.
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>Tamar

I'm sooooooooooooo glad those days are gone and we have FoxPro now. What a huge improvement!!!!