Andy,

Not Hilmar obviously, but the VFP Help lists 1 billion as "Maximum # of records per table file". Searching on "billion" yileds the same extract only.

Since the DELETE mark is integral to tables, I still don't see how you get 2 billion. Yes, it can address 2 billion records without breaking I WOULD PRESUME but that can never happen so it is moot.

Jim

>Hi Hilmar
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>>I don't quite agree here.
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>>The file-size limit is 2 billion records. This limits the number of records to 1 billion records, since a record can't have less than 2 bytes. See the part of a previous message, below.
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>>In actual practice, of course, you will never have records that small.
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>I don't understand, what don't you agree with? That VFP can deal with a single file with 2 billion records is not a figure I plucked from thin air <s>. It is what what the documentation for the product states.
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>As I said, that has nothing to do with whether you can actually create a file with 2 Billion records in it! It merely says that VFP will not break because it cannot deal with the number of physical records - unless that number exceeds 2 Billion!
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>Do you know something different then? (Since you are disagreeing) Please share your knowledge...