If you can't afford to move on, then don't make waves :-)

Bob

>I appreciate all the responds from you 8 people. Funny that this dept (link below) is totally separated from our BFS dept, yet, some of their rules applies to us. Admitting that this is my "first" longest job position I have had (4+ years), while all my previous computer jobs were just about 1 year each (had about 5 of those). I am not afraid to leave here, but two things... (1) the benefits are more secured in here and (2) in my area, most of the jobs now require BA degrees, while I only have AA degree. Yes, I have good experiences with FoxPro (both DOS/Win), but the Visual FoxPro is what I need to work on a lot more. On top of that, I have a house, 2 kids and a wife... I can not "downgrade" my salary (in fact, my positions in here is paying me higher than any other starting salary for "same" position, would not "meet" if hired). I really have to do some thinking. I think I will approach to her about the UNregistered versions of WinZip, but later...
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>Chuck
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>>I also work at a university and we have "site licensed" software which is either cheap or free. I went to uwm.edu and looked around. On page http://www.uwm.edu/IMT/purchase/winzip.html I see that WinZip is $7.
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>>FWIW, my reaction was the same as Jerry's.