Pete,

>long time no mention of beer,

Yeah now I'm am an hour later in beer time than I used to be *g*

> maybe I'll Fdisk it and start all over, all the machines were previously running W95

sounds like a plan

>n.b. I don't like posting non VFP questions on UT but I don't know of any similar groups for C++, I've tried a few newsgroups but the quality of replies are mostly very questionable, thanks again.

In all my time online I've never seen any place that's as good as Xbase forums