>What has happened? has the attraction of a GUI environment corrupted us all ?
>Compare your results to a (GOD forbid!) DOS or UNIX based system running an earlier version of FoxPro, any differences?.
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>It's time to say BUGGER the work arounds, BUGGER the wait, our clients expect it to be right, first time not third or fourth release, what do WE expect from the supplier of our software??????????

I hate the fact that the my apps are slower than the ones they replace.

The DOS environment had 2080 characters on the screen to be manipulated. A 800x600 Windows screen has 480,000 bits to be manipulated. That accounts for a lot of the difference but certainly not all.

I guess no one wants to go back to character mapped screens but I really think speed matters. Lets keep pushing for faster system code. I'm willing to learn Java is that would solve the problem.

Peter