>In the July issue of Foxpro Advisor (p. 30), Mac
>Rubel makes the statement that "the need for a
>procedure file disappeared". He later goes on to
>say that it is no longer necessary to use SET
>PROCEDURE TO in order to access routines which are
>not in the active PRG file or in the Thread of
>calling PRG files . This has not been my
>experience. Am I missing something ?

I think what he is referring to is the when using the project
manager, the project manager effectively includes all of the
individual .PRG files into a massive procedure (application),
which eliminated the need for the programmer to explicitly
set procedure to (filename) to call procedures.

If you want to include external procedures in a class definition,
you do have to explicitly set procedure to (filename). I would
question this however, because in the OOP world, as a general rule,
our procedures should be methods within classes.

Hope this helps.

John