>FYI, there never was an Ashton. Tate was a salesman, originally packaging work done by Wayne Ratliff.

Oh, boy. I stand corrected.

So, who the hell was Ashton? And if he/she was a nobody, why was his/her name on the package? Hmm, could've been Tate's dog, I guess...

Did Wayne Ratliff also work on the original dBase (or was it Vulcan) code at the Pasadena JPL?

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>>The thing is, though, I am sure that these VFP TRIAD -guys have probably been working themselves to the bone, trying to replicate what Ashton, Tate, Dr. Dave, Ken Levy and a large number of other really smart guys and gals spent a few decades perfecting. However, these in themselves laudable efforts are not unlike trying to re-engineer a DC-3 into a Concorde. In your garage... (Don't get me wrong -- both planes were marvelous engineering feats of their time.)