>>I'm not sure what MS thought was the problem with the minor version numbering system, but at some point, they discarded it- at least for Dev Tools. Now that there is no such thing at MS as version 6.5, they had no choice but to put minor upgrades into a Service Pack. The change in semantics is silly if you ask me, and is one more reason that all marketing people should be tarred and feathered.
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>Erik;
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>VFP 5.0 and VFP 5.0a come to mind.

Exactly my point. What makes is an '0a' instead of an '01'?