Re: C-ISAM problems DOS

In article <3bfalh$sgo@asl.asl.phiger.com> andreasm@asl.phiger.com (Andreas Martin) writes: > >Hi! > >B) This Problem is about the very expressiv bcheck message : 'index out of > order.' > > What reasons are there for being out of order? > > If you answer yes to all questions, bcheck 'repairs' the index file. > But there's no point in doing that because after repeating the call > bcheck wants to repair the index tables again. > In this case you have no possibility to get a good indexfile !? > Or does bcheck lie - maybe the index is not out of order? Long ago I reported a bcheck bug regarding duplicate values. If there were more than 65535 duplicate index key values, bcheck would always say that the index was out of order. Running bcheck would "fix" it, but it would still call it out of order. Do you have a lot of duplicates? If so, maybe that bug is still in in your version. Good Luck, -- W Mat Waites | mwaites@harriet.rencorp.com REN Corporation - USA | (615) 353-4110