> it just crashes without any > explanation (the program says it has committed an illegal instruction and > shuts down) rather than indicating the problem via the debugger. I've had > to restart VFP an inordinate amount of times as a result of this. Am I > doing something wrong or is this program really buggy? > I have VFP5 on a Cyrix586-120 and it has none of those problems. It runs as fast or better than VFP3 running on an Intel 90MHz Pentium. > I'm considering switching to another software package such as Power Builder. > PowerBuilder? You mean ProblemBuilder. <g> It is notorious for the unexplained crashes even on a good machine. If someone is pushing you to PB, just say no! You can get all that PB offers and a whole lot more in Visual FoxPro 5. ==Carl Carl J. Warner Raytheon Engineers & Constructors Birmingham, AL