>a few tears ago I discovered that PhDbase on a big DBF is not reliable, and may even cause VFP to crash. The fact that PhDbase now is discontinued may indicate that this problem simply is not fixable.

Good to know.

>I spent very much time trying to get PhDbase to work, one of the solutions I tried ment splitting my bigger tables into smaller tables, perform searches on all the smaller tables and merging the results into one result cursor. It was possible, but far from practical.

This is exactly what I did here.