>>As I recall, the article stated that the programs weren't calling GetVersionEx() (or not using the information properly).
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>More than likely, they weren't calling VerifyVersionInfo(), which is the documented way to do this (there are issues with using GetVersionEx()). Can't blame the older games, though, since this is new to Windows 2000 and unsupported on 9x.

Well, since the article dealt with running pre-Win2K software on Win2K, it's not surpising that they weren't dealing with VerifyVersionInfo().:-)

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You might be able to answer this question. It seems to me that, with the exception of embedded pointers, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement structures as a native part of VFP. Am I mistaken?