>Well, I don't know about faster, but it won't work correctly. The record pointer is being moved inside the SCAN (replace can change where the current record is) and not reset. REPLACE is particularly problematic as it actually can change the order of the records and cause some to be processed multiple times and others not at all.

>>Select cuttct
>>Set Order To takano

as long as the index takano is just on the field takano and THAT field does not get updated, order should remain the same, because only dependant on takano and recno() ?