>>>I had to leave my heavy copy of the HG in the US, as Lufthansa has scared use immensely with their overweight luggage fees (which didn't apply since the first leg of our fly was some local outfit, but who'd a thunk), so I brought the .chm version... which doesn't work anymore. Either something missing in my W7 or it uses some suboptimally documented feature of chm format or W7 doesn't support chm at all.
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>>Inquiring minds want to know :). Why would you ever need HG? You know VFP so well that I doubt you even would need to look up anything. I think I am the "last of the Mohicans" who is still learning VFP :)
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>Weak is the knowledge, fragile is the memory... It's the times when I kind of remember that a function I intend to use may have some extra parameters, or that there was some obscure bug related to it, IOW when I have a hunch that there's something I should remember, and would - had I used that in the last ten years. Often it's there in help, but for some cases HG is there as the last resource reference. Sometimes just to confirm there once was a bug - which may be important, because it explains a weird workaround somewhere in code, for which nobody can remember the reason.
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>And, BTW, the introductory chapters are still fun to read :).

I have not touched the book in many years. I will read this chapter.