Wim,

<< I am not complaining either, but I also would prefer ALWAYS an error
message when something is wrong with the indexes or tables, instead of an
automatic creation. >>

I understand.  But, you also have to understand that a repair is simply
going to chuck the index header anyways since in this type of case it is
basically invalid and unusable.

<< Is the design of EDB the same way as dbisam 4.22 and on ? >>

No, EDB works completely differently.

<< Could you tell me the minimum size of the idx file so I can do the check
myself ? >>

It depends upon the number of defined indexes which is, at its max, 30
indexes.  If DBISAM detects that the index header says that more than 30
indexes are defined, it will issue an error saying that the header is
corrupt.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com