Indexes (was Re: variable lookups possible?)

[Kenneth Brody]

Bill Campbell wrote:
[...]
> >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).

Well, yes, if you imported them in index order.  ;-)

Back then, indexes weren't self-balancing, and had a depth limit of 100,
after which you would get filePro error 17:

    Automatic index too unbalanced.
    Run Index Maintenance to rebuild the index.

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