Relying on RecNo () is a really bad practice. Never using PACK because of RecNo () mean that your application is doomed in long term if one of the table goes beyong the 2GB limit. Not to mention that it will get slower as the table grow.

>New programmer says we should pack the data and rebuild indexes. Original developer said never pack the tables because she needs the recno(). I think new programmer needs to find how recno() is used and get rid of it.