>can you use the locate cmd to start at end of a dbf and proceed backwards?
You might simply
skip -1 in a DO WHILE loop, until you find the record (or BOF, or the equivalent of a WHILE condition). Pressumably, this would be slower than a single command (which doesn't seem to exist).
Since this is probably not a frequent requirement, I would evaluate each situation separately: whether it is better to use a reverse index, or write your loop.
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