>You can choose to ingore what I ahve said if you like. I predict, that if you do ignore my comments and venture into the realm of porting a DOS application to VFP that you will eventually realize that the porting is taking more than twice what a rewrite would take.

I can now vouch for the truth of this statement. (Having learned the hard way). Though I have to tell you, even VFP 6.0 sometimes looks like an example of its developers venturing into that all too tempting realm!