Hi Bruce,

But it does seem like MS has similar prejudices. Why else would ADO have to access .DBFs (of the VFP variety, at least) via ODBC only? It is just 'a simple matter of programming' for them to treat .DBCs and .DBFs directly, but they don't seem to want to.

Jim N

>>Here is Symantec's response if anyone is interested:
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>Just finished reading it...hope you get a good final response out of them, their logic in singling out x-base makes no sense at all...I've had some of that same illogical prejudice toward x-base here trying to prove my Y2K compliance...