dbf file possable corruption

Craig White plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:07:33 -0700


Nigel Sollars wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> Sorry to be a nag but does anyone know of a simple way to
> 
> Re-index a .DBF file database .. I believe the one i have is corrupt cuz
> this DBD script aint working .. XBase.pm rules btw
> 
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The way that I always used to re-index dbf files (dbase / foxbase) was
simply to delete the .idx files. When the program saw that the index
files were missing, it would recreate them on the fly. YMMV (try moving
them to a different directory)

Craig