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Romain Strieff [TeamB] wrote:

> Just reread an older BDE users guide where it says dBase _only_ 
> supports expression indexes.

Well, that's true too. All DBF indexes, including single-field indexes, 
are really expression indexes. For a single field, the value of the 
expression is just the value of that field. IOW, "a distinction without a 
difference."

> As you seem to move into the SQL direction, why not allow then 254 wide 
> indexes on fields of that size for level 7 tables, all the SQL servers 
> seem to do it?

I'm not sure there is room in the NDX/MDX format for that, and still 
maintain backward compatibility.

> How about an example of DBISetRange() ?<G>

In my quick look at that function, you need to pass a few pointers, so 
that won't be as easy to do at the moment... ask me next year <g>

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//Ken[0]@Borland
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