>What do you hope to get out of the Programmers Guide that you
>can't get from the Help file?

You are right. I still like a book to take places.

>The MS help files, IMHO, are fairly useless, and the books MS puts
>out are of the same caliber, because the lack real-work experience.
>
>Go to a book store, or Hentzenwerk, and get your help there.

Hertzenwerke's books are very good, but I'd like to read the Programmer's Guide through, now that I know my way around VFP a little better, to learn the fine print of many commands. Also I am hoping to uncover overlooked goodies, such as the one someone pointed to last week, namely SYS(1271,SYS(1270)) as a way to get the exact path and file of an SCX.