>I don't know either... :) Probably the CDX was transported sometime before the seek.
>
>As a second thought: a search into an ordered file does not require one to read all the file. I don't read all the dictionary when I look for an word. :)
>
>Vlad
>

I would think that when VFP uses an index to find a single row, it must make one i/o per level of the index plus one into the actual table.

-Mike