>>p.s. i'm under pressure to finish a vfp in two weeks
>>but i am still a novice compared to you guys...
>
>Two weeks!!!! Geez. Good luck. I've been at this about
>6 months and I as still a novice.
>Tell those guys giving your pressure to get off your back.
>:)

the sad fact is, i worked on it part-time for 8 months (management
didn't like a full-tech person working on an experimental basis).
i accomplished : 1% learning vfp and 99% handling user calls every day.
then things heated up in the last two months. i wrangled for a budget
on the 'pros talk' book, and 'mastering vfp' (w/c got lost!).
this month, i haggled for 3 more people and trained them to the most
that i knew of. still, management only left me with one person.

..and the project is the most ambitious for novices : a dynamic database.
we have different data formats for entry and so we have to make the users
add new formats without making them use the database designer. since vfp
does not allow programmatic creation of tables for inclusion to a
database during runtime, we were left with importing/exporting excel files
and forcing them to a read/write cursor or use free tables (and bang! with
the indexes). i might ask a vfp wish list of object databases and tables for
runtime use.

i am discovering many, many things to do just before inserting / updating
among tables.

this is the program of my life - so far. worse comes to worse i will have
to remove pride and beg for every piece of help among newsgroups. :P