>I thought VFP was in the family of xBase/dbase language because it is using the "DBF" extension on it's tables.

No. That isn't it. xBase was a term that was coined by the industry when an attempt was made to standardize the dBase language and Ashton-Tate threatened to sue because dBase was their trademark. It was applied to the language, not the file format. Saying that VFP is xBase does nothing but hurt it.


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>>Computer Associates purchased Nantuckett. They decided they wanted to move the product to Windows and >created Visual Objects as its replacement. Contrary to what others have said here, VO is NOT xBase. (but then, >neither is VFP). I hate the term xBase and continuing its use is one of the things that keeps helps to propagate the >negative conotation that VFP has among many people.