Cindy Youngman propounded (on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:32:48PM -0400): | ... what the heck are free chains? I'm pretty sure it's like this: the freechain is a linked list of empty (i.e. unused|available|free) record numbers. If a record number is part of the freechain (thus implicity not in use) it should not show up in an index. -- JP