old data/archive records

[Butch Ammon]

Good afternoon everyone.  It's been a while since I posted... but I'm still 
around lurking in the background.  Still busy with filePro on SCO Unix here at 
Super Radiator Coils in Richmond, VA.

Anyway, here is a question regarding record sizes and how filePro searches and 
reads records.  We have an archive file that dates back to 1983 and is simply 
called "oldorder".  Every end month, the current records from the main "order" 
file get archived to "oldorder".  No biggie...  But there are well over 82,000 
records in "oldorder" right now.  It takes quite a while for filePro to generate
a report, because it has to read all 82,000+ records first.  Is there a faster 
way to read records in large files?  Do you or anyone else have archive files of
archive files or year by year individual files?

I'm just curious... No biggie, no rush...  I wonder if an 82,000+ record 
database is small compared to what others have!

Thanks for any tips on archiving old records and/or enabling filePro to quickly 
search through tens of thousands of records when using dreport with indexes.

Butch Ammon
Super Radiator Coils
Richmond, VA