Odd Index Behavior

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Frank7767 (Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:36:28 EST):

> System SCO Unix 5.6
> Filepro  5.0.14
>
> Some fool tripped a circuit breaker and the system crashed..Indices were
> smashed on a major file.
>
> One field indexed was the date field (8,mdy/)
> Deleted and rebuilt the index....When I ran a program which used
> (10,mdyy/)
> date field to lookup using the newly built index...It failed...
> I changed the lookup field to (8,mdy/) and it worked.
>
> The puzzle is why did this work before and not now???

Define "failed".

Was the former incarnation of the index pre-4.5 style, and the new
one 4.5+ style?  (Or vice versa?)

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