>Jim,
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>With SP5 I just used REINDEX on a table with 214,319 records with 15 tags and I get 15 distinct sets of .....GENERATING ......INDEXING messages on the status bar. It would appear that there must of been 15 different reads of the dbf to create the cdx file. I agree that the bloat issue seems to be a obsolete problem as my cdx file went from 20762kb to 13161kb and is holding there after 5 REINDEX commands.
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>How are you determineing that only one read pass of the dbf is necessary?


That was confirmed by MS when SP3 shipped.