So, who said anything about COM ( OLE 3.1 ) ?

Most of our action is from an extensive set of procedure libraries, hence my
familiarity with the Procedural code performance improvements.

It all depends upon your needs / tolerances.

Thanks for the dialogue -- speaking of problems in VFP 6 -- somewhat of a carryover of the GPF ( 10h error ) when using 3rd party printer drivers,
the system will "hang" some time after you have ostensibly completed printing. Sure fire, every time a success workaround, is to install the M$ equivalent printer driver. I have a M$ problem number and have been working with the fine folks in ( Redmond? Raleigh? Calcutta? ) and have demonstrated the problem to them -- now what?