>Performance Increased a Lot particularily by Using
>
>IF MOD(lnCount, 100) = 0
>WAIT WINDOW 'Remaining Records...'+ALLTRIM(STR(RECNO())) NOWAIT
>ENDIF
>
>However this line is inserting records at the bottom of file and not below the required record so I have kept my original code there
>
>INSERT INTO BillFile (POS) VALUES (cTexttwo)
>
>Any suggestion , Please Intimate
>
>Harsh

The old INSERT command has been deprecated in VFP (meaning it is still there but it isn't recommended that you use it).

If I remember correctly, that's because it needs to rebuild the file each time you do the insert command. For small files, the processing time is negligible and doesn't have a material impact on performance. But, the bigger the file, the longer each iteration takes and you reach a point where the system slows to a crawl.

I would suggest something like

SELECT *,000000000.0000 as SortKey FROM billfile INTO CURSOR billfile2 READWRITE
REPLACE ALL sortkey WITH recno() IN billfile2
lnInsertnum = 0.0000

** Do your code and when you come to the point where you want to do the insert

lnInsertnum = lnInsertnum + .0001
lnSortKey = sortKey + lnInsertNum

INSERT INTO billfile2 VALUES ( < all the insert values >,lnSortKey)

** finish your code.

At the end you can

SELECT < all the fields except sortkey > FROM billfile2 ORDER BY sortkey INTO CURSOR billfile READWRITE

and I would expect the records to be in the sequence you want. If the way I've expressed it isn't clear, maybe somebody can explain it better.

........Rich