>>Hi Sergey
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>>It actually did not stop there. With every rejection email I received a link where I could lodge a complaint about the service I received. I persisted, and finally after going through 3 levels of such rejections, I received the hotfix download link today, which consisted of 4 files,
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>>VFP9.EXE, the 2 runtime dll's and a merge module.
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>>My version now shows 9.00.0000.6303 and is a complete new rebuild of VFP.
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>>Thanks you for the link to the initial request page.
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>Bernard,
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>Did it actually fix the problem?
>
>Thanks in advance.

To tell you the truth I never tried it. I only reported the bug because it was a bug. And I installed the fix because I want the latest fix. But I have not tried and seen whether this actually fixes the problem.