>And you don't have to take little ol' me's word for it. Hopefully this quote from Doug Hennig (refer to message #452295) will be more convincing: "In 17 years of working with xBase languages, I've never had a problem with PACK, nor have I ever heard of anyone actually having a problem. I suspect this is one of those theoretical issues.". He references the PACK command in the statement but keep in mind that PACK does a REINDEX.
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Excuse me, but Doug specifically said in that message "that assumes the CDX file is in perfectly good shape". He points out that he has never experienced the PACK command causing a problem, and neither have I, but that's not what we're discussing here. We're discussing REINDEX. I never said that REINDEX could CAUSE a problem, just that it wouldn't FIX a problem you already had with the index header.

And in the thread you quoted, Doug does say that he recreates the index tags rather than using REINDEX.