>>Well, I just finished reading the article on VFP 6 in this month's FoxPro Advisor. Perhaps the article focussed mainly on things of interest to the author, I don't know, but if that's all there is, I certainly feel very down indeed.
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>It's not so much "where do you want to go today", I think this release is taking us where Microsoft wants us to go:
>Multi-tier and client-server applications.
>Web enabled applications (STRTOFILE and FILETOSTR, plus enhanced string concatenation, JPEG image support)
>Using COM to produce middle-tier components.
>New _Access and _Assign methods will change OO design implementations.
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>All of which is of little interest to the solo consultant whose business is desktop and LAN applications.
>But then those people are probably happy with VFP 5.0, apart from the non-object menus and reports.

Client server? web enabled?... sounds to me like data pipes, that can be, say... read? and analyzed?... for marketing? or who knows what?...I don't know but I think my conversation with my buddy about the book '1984' impressed me a little bit too much...