>>SNIP
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>>But surely the real thing is preferable to some clone!?!?!?!?!?
>>Jim
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>What is VFP ?.. Did eveyone somehow forget where Fox came from and what Fox is...., is it not a clone of Dbase III+ ? done Better/ Faster Smarter with more toys.?
>Sure, Today, with MS's help, (lots of it) its now MUCH MUCH more, But it wasnt for a good deal of compitation, with Fox outrunning the leader Ashton Tate, We would all be now using what ? Clipper / Dbman ? Dbase 7 ..
>Bob Lee

Yep, as I've already been reminded.
But I do think that a BETTER VFP THAN VFP through cloning is a much more difficult taks today than was the job of making a better dBase than dBase.

I surely will look at any that coame along, but think that MS might do nicely to go there itself.