Tom,

>>Tom,
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>>>>>The fact that Refox can decompile without requiring access to the "runtime library" contradicts your statement. Even more telling is that FPDOS .FXPs will run in the FPW environment, and vise-versa.
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>>>>No it doesn't. You posted no evidence to this, just speculation. It only proves that Refox is aware of what the tokens mean. Nothing else. In fact, I took a version of Refox that was produced before VFP 6.0. I took a simple fxp file produced by 6.0 containing nothing that wasn't in the language prior to 2.6 and it worked fine.
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>>>>You can choose to believe this or not. I really don't care.
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>>>George;
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>>>Why is it that all computer science students end up writing a compiler as a required assignment and never an interpreter? Not that it matters, but anyway...
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>>>Another why (sounding like the averave 3 year old) does ReFox chop off all reserved words and leave you with the short four letter version? I hate reading anything that looks like that!
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>>>Tom
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>>Not so with the latest version (mine's 8.02). It gives back 'whole' commands. Even gives you SCX, VCX, etc files. Didn't used to do that.
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>Doug;
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>To be honest I used ReFox once. A company hired me and the one and only computer used by the previous developer crashed - with no back up. They had a copy of the exe and I suggested ReFox. The Visual FoxPro application was completely hand written - all objects created in code. That was four years ago and I have not kept up with ReFox. It saved hundreds of hours of time and I saw it as a legitimate use for this product. Maintenance on this puppy was %&*@###! There were over 2000 pages of code. Memories, memories…
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>Tom


Well, I try and keep up on my versions. It's saved my butt more than once, that's for sure. I was doing a little side project and for some reason one form would go south about once every other week. Always the same form. Anyway, I'd just go pull it out of a build and all was well. Never did figure out what was going wrong. Did all the normal fixes including manually packing the SCX table and so forth. Refox is like a gun. It can save your life or cause harm, depending on the intent of the indivudual using it.