Hi Edward,

>In regard to Rushmore: it seems that nobody knows exactly how it works, but assuming that some real index files are tens MB on network, one can say that moving whole index to local computer (hard drive in this case) and only then starting processing is not the way Foxpro actually works.

Correct! An index file is read in blocks of 512 bytes. Only those blocks that contain the necessary records are read, as well as some block that point to those block.

Christof