>>I just recently left a company whose management software was written in Clipper. I was writing reports, queries, and 'front-ends' in VFP to access this data. To my knowledge, there is no way to use those indexes. Unfortunately, the only way that I have found to speed up your SELECTS, is to create your own indexes on those files. I have a routine that does that safely, if you need it.<<

When you say safely, do you mean while the files are being used on the network????
I don't know of anyway of indexing while files are not being used exclusively.

DJ :o)