Jim, if I gave the impression that I want to sue anyone I am sorry. I just don't want to get sued myself and now I am fairly certain it is going to happen. We are rewriting in VFP but we have thousands of users and many of them are just as happy as can be with the DOS version. The problem is more complex than just going to a 4 digit century since there are hundreds of forms involved where spacing is sometimes crucial. By the way the quote from the documentation- is that from Fox26 or VFP?