Heads up on "reindex"....

John Esak john at valar.com
Wed May 2 09:14:21 PDT 2007


Hello,

Just got bit by something stupid. I have been using Bob Stockler's "reindex"
script for years... don't care to say how many... :-)  Actually, Jim A. just
told me it says circa 1985 in it!  Anyway, we had a problem today and I just
quickly did a "reindex" to fix the file and ran again. Same problem... over
and over. Nothing dawned on me... then after calling everyone I know ... the
light shined... There were only 16 indexes when Bob wrote that version.
Now, with 5.6 there are 26! It was index.R that was blowing up. So, if you
use that program, or any program that only indexes A-P, fix it.  Probably,
these days would be best to just use -ra and be done with it.

Take care,

John



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