>>PS I do think it is stretching things just a tad to call the MS site "part of the online Help". I consider the online Help to be the Help that comes with the product and which is available to me with a hit of F1 (or its equiv. click).
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>Maybe looking beyond the VFP help files shouldn't be necessary except on rare occasions, but I'll accept solutions for problems anywhere I can find them. I think that the resources available for VFP programmers are probably better than any other database product. If what I want to do can be done, I can always find answers in one of the following places:
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>1) In the stored 50,000 VFP messages in the Universal Thread or by posting a new message.
>2) The Microsoft Knowledge base
>3) The Microsoft developers network CD (or in MSDN on the internet)
>4) The various Compuserve forums
>5) http://www.ping.be/~ping0150/webboard/webboard.html
>6) http://hexadec.com.sg/cgi-local/Forum/bbs_forum.cgi
>7) Third party books
>8) The real help files on VFP
>9) The real Microsoft manuals
>10) Only on extreeemly rare occasions - from a living tech support person

David,
There are also other sites too, such as the Foxgang site, and a few others, plus the newsgroups seem to be an acceptable way to gleem some help, not as fun though as the Compuserve forums..

Thanx!

Tony Miller
Vancouver, Wa