Rebuilding Indexes (was: Re: Moving from SCO to Linux)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:21:37PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
>     It's not strictly necessary to rebuild indexes, even though the version
> of fp is changing drastically, but I usually do, especially if the fp
> version is changing, and this just happens to halt at each alien file for
> which the target data file doesn't exist. Note the filename and hit X not
> ctrl-c, and the loop will proceed on to the rest of the files.

It was my understanding that yes, it was actually necessary (if not
necessarily recommended by fpTech) to rebuild indexes going to 5.0; and
by rebuild, I don't mean '-ra -e', I mean 'use docindex to list them
out; whack the files; and build from scratch'.

In practice, we've found this necessary in several instances.

It also appears to be necessary on the odd 5.0 to 4.8 rollback.

Can anyone comment?

Cheers,
-- jra
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