Hi Perry --

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So your trying to tell me that out of 135,000 or so people, only 8,000 or so truly understand the power of VFP's data engine (as discussed on the UT many times over) vs. 130,000 or so who are willing to suffer with a tool cause MS tells them to use it?
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Who tells whom to use what? Hell, afaik, most folks are aware of this so called "power" but prefer to use a tool that doesn't bury them in the darkest dankest depths of Variant Hell or prevent them from using Unicode (thus limiting their market to just a portion of the English-speaking world) or maybe they just like to do native file i/o -- who knows?

Later... Karl