Paul,

The .??a files are really just text representations of forms and class libraries. You only need to worry about them if you're using the VFP interface to VSS. The nice thing about them is that they let you use VSS's diff funcitons to see the differences between different versions of a file.

>I am using VSS 6 and I am new to VSS altogether. There are a couple of reasons I do not use the interface one reason is that everytime the project opened it would recreate the pjm files which took some time to do. Another was that I had a lot of issues dealing with the dbc being opened for shared mode. Anyway, so what I do is just check the files in and out directly through VSS which has seemed to work fine, I am just concerned, with the issues you brought up about the .??a files, that down the road I might run into a problem since the .??a files are not being maintained without using the VFP interface.