>>>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


Actually there is a way to do what you are saying. I ran into
this same problem just recently. You have to you AFIELDS and
CREATE table from Array. But if your in VFP 5.0, its a little
easier. Check the thread about DBC Table Templates a couple of
days back.

Dan