I appreciate your feedback. VFP does in fact do everything "I want (or need) it to do" - per MY needs, it's not an overstatement - it is a truism in MY (not anyone else's) "world"!

I don't write device drivers or anything as such, I develop data-driven apps (particularly order-entry/accounting kinda stuff) and use libraries to do the "dirty work" when required.

Regards,
Bill