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>Hi Craig!
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>Long time no talk. Hope all is well with you.

Yup, it's been awhile. Things are good here...just waiting for the snow so I can strap on the skis again. Keeping busy with work. I hope things are well with you too.

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>The issue here is that the data is proprietary medical information that the client wants to prevent the competition from using.

OK. That's a bit different. I'd just drop it in the EXE and encrypt it unless it's going to change frequently.

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>>> open file with Word
>Notepad is even easier and it ships with Windows ;)

Yup, but it has file size limitations.

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>Have you used any encryption products with VFP, and if so, what did you think of them?

I've never had the need to use any. They have to slowdown access to the data, but if you're only talking lookup tables, you could decrypt everything on application launch and just keep a local copy.

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>Rick