Indexes (was Re: variable lookups possible?)

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Fairlight wrote:
>[...]
>> Thanks -very- much for the response, Jeff.  Thanks also to Ken and John.
>> (John's mention of 36 rather than 26 seems to indicate 0-9 are valid index
>> names as well, I presume...I'll be sure to handle those as well, then.)
>
>They're the not-often-used demand indexes.

I used demand indices quite a bit when doing bulk imports in the days when
automatic indices had a nasty habit of crashing with large numbers of adds
(large numbers being about 99 in the Tandy 6000 Xenix systems).

Bill
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