Heads up on "reindex"....

[Bob Stockler]

John Esak wrote (on Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:14:21PM -0400):

| 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.

In 1985, or sometime way back when, I was using 'dd' to write
the headers of indexes to INDEX.A, INDEX.B, etc., and then later
copying those files, as needed, to index.? and using dxmaint to
rebuild them.

Later, Marc Parnes and I co-operated in writing two scripts that
documented indexes, writing two reports - one in human readable
format, and one that could be read by a script that handed info
to dxmaint to re-index them.  That was in 1998-2000.

I don't know what "reindex" script of mine you were using.

Bob

PS - The Windows distribution of filePro v5.6 has a filePro program
     that looks as though it manages index maintenance.

     From the Windows filePro Main Menu, enter:

       G => UTIL => T => P => G => UtilIDX

     and get a menu that looks like an index maintenance menu.  I
     have yet to play with it.

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