>Tim,
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>No, I'm saying is that I think MS Common Dialog is the more conventional way of doing it. It is part of the Windows platform SDK. getfile() is a function provided with VFP, and it has been around for a while.
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>>so what you're saying, there's no conventional way of doing this, so Nadya's prg kind of simulates the true getfile()? I got it to work using below code.
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Getting back to my orig quest, is there a way for getfile() to show only files of my choice beginning with a prefix like 020*.dbf rather than all dbfs()?
"Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life."
