>>Both of you wrong. Both of these are dangerious. I think that's silliest thing in VFP with public, private, local issue. In first stage they had should to force use table name with fields like myTable.myField
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>Probably, but a lot of the weaknesses of xBase languages make more sense when you remember that dBase was originally designed to be used interactively, so it was streamlined for someone typing at the command prompt.

I remember one time when there was a forgotten "set print on", talk was also on, and I wondered why is it printing whenever I type something. I thought it was a coincidence and that someone was testing the printer from a different machine. Then I used one of List commands and heard lots of printer buzz.

When I looked at the print, it all made lots of sense, it was a complete log of what I was doing, with intermediate results and everything, quite verbose. IOW, up fo mFoxPlus 2.1 you could use Fox in teletype mode, without a monitor. Probably couldn't browse or run forms, but about 99% of the rest was usable that way.