>Hi Craig
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>>None of us have VFP 6.0, final release. John may also experience different results depending on what beta version he's testing with.
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>6.00.8141 --- the DevCon release. I also have the VS6 Release Candidate version but I didn't install it.
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>The string functions appear interesting...think I'll look at those speeds too.
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>Thanks.

The DevCon release still had some debugging code and some other issues. Try the release candidate.