Hi Johnny ---

What is your SET COLLATE setting? Also, what is your Code Page setting for the table. I have a feeling that codepage translation is getting in the way and that maybe the 240 char limit is based on a binary limit and not a character-by-character limit.


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>The VFP 5 documentation says that a CDX index key can be up to 240
>characters long. When I issue the following commands I get an error 112
>- Invalid key lenght.
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>create table x (x c(240))
>index on x tag x
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>If I reduce the field lenght to 120 it works fine. 121 doesn't work.
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>What could be wrong. Is there a parameter that I should change in VFP. I
>am using 5.0 (build 415), french version.
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>Thanks !
>
>Johnny