And even when we get past the novice stage, IT completely reinvents itself as far as state of the art tools, and we start over again.

That's why you don't see too many grey hair programmers any more.


>>George,
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>>Thanks for the advice. I am at best a novice when it comes to foxpro (or any other programing language) and am learning from my many, many mistakes. I thought I had done a pretty good job of setting up the databases but the more I do with this program the more I see how wrong I was (the referenced table in particular).
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>>Thanks again for your advice,
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>Russell,
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>At one point or another all of us were "novices".