>>I will, however, agree that I don't thing that performance would be an issue. In fact, there are some other things (smaller footprint for one perhaps?) that might be gained.
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>And how much of this footprint bloat is from backward compatibility?!?!? I would like to start seeing the removal of Foxbase/xBase obsolesence. IMHO, if you can't have converted [or at least started] to new tech by now, why are you using VFP?

Mark,

I'd be willing to bet that a lot of bloat is there. The trick is which to keep and which to get rid of and what kinds of troubles would be caused by making the change?

It's essentially a business decision. How would these changes reduce the desireability of the product for example.

Personally, if you're going to remove some of the older commands take them ALL out and make that part of the product available as a COM+ object. Can you imagine some large corporation hosting a few Visual FocPro COM+ servers? <g>

Best,

DD