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>This goes right back to my original point: The DBF structure is now the weakest link in the product and we have to look beyond it for anything but modest applications :)
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John,

Anything but modest applications??? You earlier dismissed the Eurotunnel. Ive written of a single system running the company - 250-350 workstations across 2 cities and billing approx. 1 million customers per month.
Sure, both were FPD/FPW, but that's not the point, it is the effectiveness of the DBF that's at question here.

Craig is going to implement something to replace the DBF using MTS, MSMS, ADO, SQL Server, VFP and LMNOP. Now THAT ought to be real fun, getting all that to work together and PROPERLY across several hundred workstations! Using stuff in its infancy, which isn't yet working properly, and is hardly documented. We call that progress???

I agree it will be lots of fun, but progress???

Cheers,

Jim N