>Hey Walter,
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>>BTW, John, did you ever look into a VFP application exe trough notepad or something. It's really interesting that it contains so much garbage. Seems like that the VFP team could improve much when it comes to reducing the size of the EXE.
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>>For example: The exe contains comments, useless properties like the left,height of a cursor object, property settings in ASCII format, useless spaces etc.
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>Yeah, I've noticed some of that. Perhaps that's the legacy of creating a fast compiler at (maybe) the expense of a careful compiler. I've also heard arguments made (that I agree with) calling for a more compact version of the VFP runtimes that tosses out all backward-compatible stuff (you know, the stuff that when you look in the Help file says "For backward compatibility, use XXXX instead").

Well, excluding the debug info can reduce the size. I haven't seen anything official, but my experience is that it's about 25%.