>Hi
>I have been given a very large DOS application, at worse I will probably end up babysitting it. At best I will get to replace it, either way I need to understand what it does and how it works, anybody got any hints to the best way of going about this? Any utilities that might help?
>TIA
>Stuart

I am in a similar situation - I do a lot of code work in VFP (for the intellisense) and go back to FPD to test. Also, I run the beautify tool on the old code whenever I touch a program as it helps reveal structure, and then add comments whenever I discover something that is not blatently obvious, and sometimes even though it is blatently obvious.

Look around for a utility called gofish (search the download section here) written by a developer from Wisconsin. Its saved my hide several times, and helped reveal the patterns and habits of the previous programmer, whom I've never had the opportunity to meet. Code references in VFP9 does similar things from what I gather.

HTH,