>>>>>>Once again I've been tasked with moving a VFP6 app to VFP9. I never seem to remember all the pitfalls...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Anyway this one needs to be a quick job - so if I do this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>SET ENGINE BEHAVIOR 70
>>>>>>SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>....then is there anything else that can break...or will this get me by?
>>>>>
>>>>>Check http://berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/moving-applications-vfp-90
>>>>
>>>>Yeah I ran across that. At one time it seems like I had a list of commands to check....don't know where I got it though.
>>>
>>>As far as I know, there are only 3 settings to check (listed in that site). Also you need to pay close attention to LOCAL declaration and date constants.
>>
>>Hi,
>>What changed with those last two?
>>Regards,
>>Viv
>
>There is a setting that might force variables to be declared _VFP.LANGUAGEOPTIONS, but this is minor. From VFP7 you need to delimit the fars with ','.
>IOW
>

LOCAL x y z

is not longer supported it need to be

LOCAL x, y, z

>
>and one that forces date(time) literals to be propper formated SET STRICTDATE TO (VFP 7)

Hi,
Thanks. I was only really asking out of curiousity. All of the VFP stuff I worked on was moved to VFP8 so I guess I would have been aware of those two but had forgotten. We never ported to VFP9 but I was aware of the ENGINEBEHVAVIOUR etc changes that were added then.
Regards,
Viv