Yes, you are right, I just noticed that the words and their offsets in 
the index are not printed if the first index does not have any indexed 
word. 

I am now working on fix, and I will post it as soon as it is ready.

Giulia
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Flappy wrote:

> I haven't dug into this problem yet, but it looks like the merge
> facility doesn't come up with a valid merged index file if one of the
> index files to be merged is "empty".   Has anyone run into this yet and
> debugged it?
> 
> J.
> 
> 
>