>>Can anyone give me the final trick to show the progression of an INDEX command WITHOUT getting the function name of the Progression routine written to the index file.
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>I recently submitted this question to FoxPro Advisor, and it was answered in the August 1999 issue by Christof Lange. Basically you still have to d a function call, but he included about a page of code to run to remove the function from the CDX. The code was included on the Resource CD for those who subscribe to that.

Thanks for the answer Mark. I'll turn myself to this kind of solution although I do not find it the best way. I was actually kind of thinking there would be a way to instruct the INDEX command to be interrupted on a regular basis to execute some code. We had it in Clipper a while ago already.

I even thought I would be able to create a timer in C that would be capable to display the progression bar. Unfortunately, VFP stops everything when it needs to execute the REINDEX or an INDEX command and the timer doesn't get fired ... even if that's a multimedia timer.

Pat