>>>I thought there was a way to buy the Hacker's Guide for VFP6 on CD only. Did that change?
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>>The entire book is available in HTML Help file format. Buy the book from www.hentzenwerke.com and you can download the CHM files free. Once extracted, you can burn this onto a CD [which is what I did]. Even if you only want the electronic version, the price is the same, you just get both. What you do with the actual printed version is up to you.
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>So you thought it was worth $70? I do understand about if I one or two solutions that save me an hour a two then it would be worth it. It is just that I went through that route when FoxPro first came out and I ended giving the library almost $200 worth (new) books that did me no good with VFP.

To me, this book is worth at least twice that. The first 150 pages [the book is printed on letter size paper unfolded] are a synopsis of VFP 6. Then you have over 700 pages that gives the poop on every VFP function, command, method, event, property, etc. This includes how the item works, how it was intended to work [not always the same], cool tips, and gotchas.

This book is what VFP Help should be. Now kick in the right to download the material and be able to access it all electronically, and you have a bargain. My F1 key in VFP is still the default VFP Help, but Alt-F1 brings up the Hacker's Guide CHM [HTML Help].