>Richard,
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>I have a lot of sympathy for the exploits you describe, BUT there is that "UN-common" thread that it appears to be you and your group of folks who are having, BY FAR AND AWAY, the majority of extremely WEIRD problems.
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>Could it possibly be that you folks in particular are using some combination of OS "features and add-ons which, TOGETHER with VFP, *DO* indeed have probelms???
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>Sure smells like something along those lines to me. I couldn't possibly begin to guess what, exactly.
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>I can tell you this though... mine is a quite vanilla and SIMPLE WIN95 system which I boot daily whether it needs it or not and I have *NEVER* had a serious problem of ANY kind with VFP or anything else. Now I am not in VFP all day, but I am in something most of the day, and often 6-8 things at once.
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>Good luck,
>Jim N
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I'd like to concur as I was thinking along those lines yesterday. MS's OSs are not fool-proof, and more often than not, it doesn't take too much to mess them up. (My favorite is the new 95 GPF which is now called an 'illegal function'. What do I do when MS Word GPFs and the error message says 'please contact the software manufacturer.' It's YOUR software damit! lol )

Anyway, I've definately seen different performance of VFP on different machines that are similarly equipped. I've seen some of Rich's problems, but not all. I've not always been able to isolate a cause.

Richard, perfect or not, VFP is what we've got, and I think even you have to admit its strengths far outweight its weaknesses. Remember how spoiled we've become. VFP is head and shoulders above FPW/D in terms of application development. Yes, we've sacrificed some speed (particularly from FPD), and maybe even a little stability, but in the long run, we are definately better off.

We could spend hours debating this, but the flames at MS, although well-deserved, are a waste of energy. Gates has his way, and we live by Gates way b/c Lotus, Broderbund and others are too ethical and IBM is too stupid. C'est la vie.

Long live VFP!! Death to Access!! lol

JMHO

Matt