>I tried to steer him politely to avoid starting the vfp.exe from network a couple of times ;-)

It is a fact that a vfp exe continues to go back to the exe to extract bits to execute. It is a fact that mdot is safer, better, smarter, but shallow people worry about how it looks to their eyes, which is totally subjective. I follow the smart people: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/calvin_hsia/foxpro-performance-tip-field-name-lookup-for-tables

I have been trying to steer people towards the better ways for a long time and I finally got sick and tired of wasting my breath on diplomacy.

>Yupp, but vfp compiled access is DESIGNED to run from local HD - swimming upriver by intent will encounter all feces added. Swimming downriver might still encounter 1 or 2, but those can be wrapped by code ;-)