>Grouch # 1. Why doesn't 10/0 generate an error?? I want to see divide by 0
>errors, especially when I shouldn't get 0's. Instead I get ******. Eh???

By design, at least as far back as FoxBASE+ 2.10. I don't have anything earlier on my machine right now.

>Grouch # 2. Why can't I put a number or date into a list box cell without
>having to convert it?

Again, legacy reasons.

>Oh yes, the reason why I don't have the benefit of the debug facilities is
>that some bright spark made the #INCLUDE a compile directive and not an
>environment directive...thus forcing me to test using EXE's.

Not in my experince: try pasting the following code in a .PRG and running it within the IDE.

#include "foxpro.h"

MESSAGEBOX("Testing #include", MB_ICONEXCLAMATION + MB_YESNOCANCEL)