Ya know, VFP is pretty cheap. dBase II sold for $800 a copy. Why not just give MS a taste, and provide your customer with a full blown runtime. You can remote-in and fix problems or walk your user through a repair on the phone.

VFP is a lot cheaper than the program you wrote. The MS Fox team will enjoy their bonus - and nothing like a profitable package to keep those guys hacking in the improvements.

>I am working with vpm application and distributing the exe to my customers, but I have seen the need to have vfp to do some admin. when a memo table corrupts, openning from VFP can repair it, or for example run a small prg to update or validate something etc..
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>The thing I cannot give out a copy of vfp to each customer or install it with the app since they are not buying vfp licens, just my software, is there a light vfp manager that can be installed to do this task as a separate exe (free) or what is the best way to implement.
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>Thanks
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>Norman