David,

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>Your original post in this thread does not include any reference to deleted index tags, which to 99.99% of the FoxPro developers is the definition of CDX bloat.

No my original post doesn't refer at all to deleted TAGs, and quite by design, since it was not THAT aspect of "bloat" that was the focus of the bug report. FPD and VFP6SP5 both eliminated the other kind of bloat and VFP7SP1 does not.
I guess that I'm in the .01% who do not define "bloat" as only deleted index tags, since it is rare indeed that I ever do that.