>>>I use clipper .dbf as a free tables in my application and create CDX files, In case my clipper application is still using that dbf, can I seek the record without reindex the CDX ? .. thank you very much
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>>You will have to create the CDX with one of the additional drivers. THere's one that comes with Clipper 5.2, or you can buy the SixDriver libraries which are very good.
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>cant you create the CDX in Visual Foxpro and still use it for accessing records in Clipper 5.2 ?
>i have done that and it works with clipper 5.2 and with FPW 2.6,VFP 3.0,and VFP5.0 as long as i treat the tables as free tables.
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>TIA, Dave.

Yes, that's possible, IF you've set your Clipper EXE to read CDX indexes instead of NTX indexes.

Barbara