>If memory serves (and that gets more and more doubtful these days) there was a bug in REINDEX in 2.6, making the DELETE TAG ALL the 'convention'. Like other "urban myths", it may have grown from there.

Could be, I've never tested it, nor would I even know how, really. I've just considered it a standard, but who knows, maybe it's been a myth in vfp. And who would like to take up the baton on this one? :)