>>You can use

SET NULLDISPLAY TO ""

for whole application or NullDisplay property of the textbox to display blank instead of .null.
>>
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>
>Sergey & Hilmar
>
>Thanks, I think I got it now.
>
>Too bad ODBC doesn't handle date fields well.

Actually the problem is with foxpro allowing empty dates not with ODBC.

>
>Jim
>jharvey@netrax.net