Indexes (was Re: variable lookups possible?)

[John Esak]

> > 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.
>

God, I remember those days... and people thought the DKNF boxes were
annoying... :-)  Now, many of my indexes are in the hundreds of thousands
and zero problems... (knocking on every piece of wood he can find). :-)

John