Bonnie,
If people are serious about assisting VFP'ers to convert, a good start would be an automated "dbc to typed datasource" converter. A modified gendbc would probably do it. Then when MS sorts out disk spanning for local datasets, many objections will dissolve.
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
