>>Anyway, my point was just to challenge the statement that LOCATE is a sequential search of the table, since it isn't necessarily that when optimized.<<

This might be an exercise in semantics, but if a bitmap is how Rushmore works, the position of the bits probably correspond to record #'s. So, it may be that LOCATE is always sequential. The difference would be that VFP is sequentially passing through the bitmap instead of the table.