Very cool; I knew someone must still use them. These commands were virtually forgotten at MS while I was there and Calvin was surprised they still worked when I pointed that out to him during the early VFP 9 product cycle.


>>Almost all of the old SETs still do work. I was on a project with the documentation folks back in 2001/2 to straighten up the VFP docs and I remember testing the heck out of all of the SETs. I think SET DOHISTORY doesn't work anymore but most of the others still do.
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>>The cool old commands that I think could still be very useful and often overlooked are CREATE VIEW filename FROM ENVIRONMENT and SET VIEW TO filename. The first saves all of your SETs and open tables and record pointers to a file; the second restores them.
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>I still use those, when it comes to setting a few odd relations among tables that need to be browsed in a particularly nasty setup - usually part of some debugging or conversion, when I have to close what I'm doing just to give it another try a few minutes later. Then rebuilding the whole setup takes just too long, and writing a little prg leaves garbage (the .prg :) lying around that may not be recognized as such - need to be quite clever with naming. With a .vue, I know it's junk if older than a week, so I know I can just delete it without much thinking - it will never be a part of the app itself.