>Pat,
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>Christof Lange has an article in this month's Foxpro Advisor explaining how to *remove* the progression routine from the index after the fact, I don't know that there is any way to pull it off otherwise.
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>>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.

Thanks for the answer. You're probably right: there is no other way to get it off of the CDX ... if we use UDFs, which I agree, will slow down the build of the index dramatically. Unfortunately, what can you do when you have a 2 million records table that must be indexed: it often takes 2 minutes before completion! You need to show the progression!

Pat