>I need to retrieve information about indexes stored in a CDX file. I cannot use any of the VFP functions (like ATAGINFO()) to do this. In some cases I won't have the corresponding DBF and, if so, they are free tables.
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>I'm trying to open the CDX file using low level file functions and reading the information there to get this information. However, I am having problems interpreting the data there. The information in the help file is not very helpful here.
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>Has anybody done something like this and can give me some pointers?

It's documented - look at home()+"tools\filespec", it's all there: structures of all headers, mystical meanings of ReservedN fields etc etc.

Or... um, it seemed to contain more on the headers in some previous versions. I'm sure I had read somethin somewhere in a printed book. Was it 5.0? Or later? Can't remember anymore.