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>Just to add my historical $0.02...
>The PACK command in dBASE II and III was a little iffy. Disk space was also an issue back in the Dark Ages (before Windows, when there was no light < G> ). It was more reliable to copy a file, leaving behind the deleted records. It was also a great help in speeding things up (back in the days of 7MHz) to have the data sorted by primary key order...
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Jen

Ah yes, the bad old days <g>. Did you ever go so far as to put the index and dbf on seperate physical disks to cut down on head movement? How about avoiding memo fields like the plague because they were such storage hogs?

Donny