>>If you just need a temporary index you can index to an IDX file which does
>>not change the header of the table. Any CDX index or reindexing of a CDX
>>file requires EXCLUSIVE access
>Not exactly...only the main structural does. Any other CDX doesn't require
>it...

Which is why there was an article in FoxPro Advisor last year (or was it
FoxTalk?) that suggested doing an FLOCK() on your table, indexing it to a
different CDX, deleting the original, renaming the copy, and unlocking the
table. (Or something to that effect...)