>>As I wrote I would not use @ GET. Or ACCEPT or INPUTBOX This is outdated. I started with VFP after this was outdated 25 years ago. So I have no clue about this. And I strongly like to discourage you using this.
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>Agreed.
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>However, It's hard to imagine but entire commercial accounting systems were built during the eighties and early nineties with SAY and GET. I sold a lot of them. I did a lot of work with them back them.
>The advent of Windows and VFP changed all that, but those SAY and GET DOS systems replaced mainframe systems costing orders of magnitudes more and blazed the trail.
>Like you, I doubt that I'd have the patience to deal with them now, but I can look back with fondness.

Where built is the right term. They might still run. If my bank clerk could not solve a problem with the web-UI. she's starting the VT-100 emulation to go into the COBOL heart ...
But to fiddle with this nowadays. We are dinosaurs with VFP, but not trilobites. Shudder.