>i have foxpro lan for dos ver 2 It is not y2k compatible however i like the programs and as you can see they have worked for many years. i have searched the internet for solutions and complete horizons has a fix but not for foxprolx which they say is an extended version. my question is (A) can i buy a different dos based program that i could convert my programs and data files into and then i could use their fix.? or (b)if i went to visual foxpro would my dbf files convert and would my programs all have to be re-worked. Help Also do you know any foxpro programmers in houston texas that are familiar with foxpro for dos? thank you please e-mail me at d3888@lcc.net

First the good news...
You can upgrade to FoxPro 2.6 from 2.0 pretty painlessly. The commands are compatible, and the power tools will automatically upgrade the old screens, menus, reports, etc. Lan support was folded into FoxPro starting with 2.5 so there is no longer a lan version, and the the problem with the "extended version" of FoxProlx 2.0 is that is uses a memory manager that is not compatible with Microsoft's, so it won't run in Windows. Microsoft changed memory managers when they started producing FoxPro so that won't be a problem with 2.6.

Now the bad news...
Most of the Y2k problems are not caused by FoxProlx. It was pretty close to being Y2k compliant. Most of the Y2k problems are in the programs written back then when most developers weren't concerned about writing code that couold handle four character years. So you need to get some programmers to look at the programs.

David.