>>>Yes, and if he had written DOS and Windows, he'd be a billionaire.
>>Then the OP could spend that minor money to get refox. Or pay somebody owning a copy.
>>
>>>But he didn't and he's not, so he's dealing with what is facing him, not what might have been facing him.
>>
>>Have been? What will facing him again and again.
>
>Really?
>I've been writing XBase since around 1984 and I've never:
>a. used version control
>b. lost valuable code
>Magic? No.. I make frequent backups.

Bill - five years or so ago, I would have said the same thing. Then I saw Rick Borup give a session about Mercurial and for the first time, I saw version control software that didn't seem like more trouble than it's worth. Now I keep all my client work, plus several other things such as my non-profit's website and the speaker and session data for SWFox in it. It has more than paid for the time I invested in learning how to use it.

Tamar