>>>Barbara,
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>>>Simply put, it makes no sense for MS or any other vendor to intentionally release buggy software.
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>>>George
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>>You're absolutely right, George. However, bugs creep in and sometimes an intentional feature is still not what a majority of programmers want/need. A case in point is the VFP3 'problem' with numeric values in combo boxes. It won't handle them. MS designed it that way, but changed it in VFP because of the outcry. Same with putting an = sign in front of a function. All of these are very frustrating the first time you run into them.
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>>Barbara
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>Oh, do bugs creep in, despite the best testing efforts. The possibilities connected with configuration alone are virtually limitless, but that's that nature of this biz.

Yep, they test _as much as they can_ but they can't test every possible combination of commands/configurations/errors etc. Who was it said "Every time I build foolproof software, they build a better fool"? Probably Murphy!! (Oy! lawyers!!<g>)

I've found that after multiple crashes caused by a short circuit between my ears that I need to uninstall VFP, reconfigure my PC, defrag the hard drive and then reinstall VFP. I'm not sure whether the PC needs all this, but I do!! The nice (relatively) thought-free steps of reinstallation give me a bit of space and generally clears up the wetware problem that caused the software to crash.....

No, M$ is not perfect, and it would be nice to have perfect software everytime, it would also be nice to hit the lottery bigtime, but I'm not holding my breath for either one. Which makes my doctor much happier as my blood pressure is down!

Jen