>FWIW, in VFP 6.0 you can specify a BMP file at startup with the -b
>switch, which fires up immediately while the VFP runtime is loading.
>I tend to use that, plus a dialog splash screen that displays version
>info as my apps load.

I knew some kind of bar showed somewhere. Thanks for the info on VFP 6.0. I hadn't discovered that one yet.