>I am (and you should be) pleased that we are slowly >gaining more and more integrated control of these >databases FROM Fox rather than whining about the >lack of respect that DBFs get and how to fix them. This says it all. Imagine if MS didn't allow VFP to connect to other databses. It would be almost useless unless we resorted to old import text files and duplicate data. VFP, if Microsoft doesn't drop it, is great for data manipulation. But it's two gig limit prohibits it from being a serious candidate for big projects. If only SQL Server, AS400, Oracle, and the rest could have the speed that VFP does. .Signature { margin-top: 12px; color: #666666; } .Signature a { color: #666666; }