>Not at all - VFP6 is a part of VS6, and if you apply VS SP3 to a system that only has VFP6 installed, you get the same thing whether you installed just VFP6 from the Visual Studio distribution, or the VFP6-only product. There is no separate patch for VFP6-only installs, any more than there were separate updates to VFP5 whether sold by itself or part of the previous VS97. It's the same code base.
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well that reassuring at least. Also, in the last couple of days the crashing has diminished. As I clear up problems in the code - particularly cleanup procedures, the exe becomes more stable.

Thanks

Harry