Just my opinion, Vlad, but I think this was because it was DOS and not Windows. Programming stuff for Windows is just necessarily a lot more complex than straight DOS stuff, hence there will most likely be a lot of buggier code. I loved FPD 2.x myself!! I still have legacy FPD apps running that I may never bother upgrading to VFP.

Norton Commander is great! I've also used it for years, and the only reason I finally started using something else was because of Win95/98 long file names which my version of Commander didn't support. I'm using something now called FAR, which a Russian friend of mine turned me onto (it was developed by a Russian guy) ... anyway, it's a Norton Commander clone, except that it supports the long file names. Still has the DOS look-and-feel tho, and I love it!! A lot of people use XTree Gold too (another DOS goodie).

Bonnie

>>I wouldn't know. I never got the privelege to use anything before VFP 5.0a.
>
>In certain ways, this is bad. :) Mainly because FoxPro DOS 2.x were versions almost without bugs (compared to other software packages), flexible and powerful, fast and... with almost perfect on-line help docs (ie simple, good samples, good cross-references, etc). From the countless software packages that I've used, only Peter Norton's DOS products (Norton Commander, Utilities, Editor, etc) and Turbo Pascal 3.x and 4.x were better.
>
>One special note for Norton Editor: small, fast, excelent features not found in any modern editor. I used it for years and I never found a bug and it NEVER crashed. Peter Norton was a real magician. :)
>
>It's a long time since I haven't seen the quality found in FPD 2.x versions. :(
>
>Vlad