How much time have you spent to this point trying to fix this issue? Think about searching for and trying solutions, posting here for help, reading responses. Now, multiple that by your hourly pay rate. Are other people waiting for this to be fixed? How much time have they lost? How about your customers? Are they affected? Add in the cost of ReFox, assuming you have to buy it. This one issue has become very expensive. It's something that a free, easy to setup solution, would have solved in a few minutes time with version control.

>Hi Craig,
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>Thanks for your contribution.
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>You are right, Craig. And, as you may imagine, we are moving of course to a more controlled environment (in python) and quite aware of the new software production paradigm. But not for this legacy VFP code base. Do not really want to indulge into the specific requirements of vfp in this respect. What I am looking for here is a hack not a long term solution for this legacy app. I understand that there may be some...
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>Daniel