Structural CDX indexes are built where the data is. For IDX and non structural CDXs you could ...

USE TABLE
LOCAL lcDir
lcDir = ADDBS(JUSTPATH(DBF("TABLE")))
*IDX
INDEX ON index_expression TO (m.lcDir+"idx_file_name")
*Non structural CDX
INDEX ON index_expression TAG tag_name OF (m.lcDIR+"cdx_file_name")

HTH

>I am moving an old application converted from Foxpro for Windows 2.6 to Visual foxpro 5 to Visual Foxpro 8. The original author is long gone. While testing I found that a program m which is suppose to recreate indexes does not work. I am trying to generalize it so that folders do not have to be hard wired and so that program is not dependent on other code. I know that data is going to be be in subfolder \data of the executing program. The glitch that I found is that when looking at "Data" of the project manager the table name does not match the dbf name shown in the path, i.e
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> project manager name status
> path dbf namme pop1.dbf
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>What is the best way of handling this situation?