I think your right about the "." files. In fact I think I forgot recently. Anyway cut and paste is working today.

When you said I could use SO for dbase I was surprised. So last night I got SO office to open a dbase file from my accounting system. At first SO could not open the file but I then converted the file from VFP 7 to foxplus and it opened with out trouble. Then I copied the file from wins to the linux and I had trouble again. In fact SO did not find the file. Turns out that SO is case sensitive. I change the DBF to dbf and all worked.

I'd now like to open postgres tables. But so far I have not seen where that can happen. Have you done this? Can you provide a few steps to get me started.

The Borland support is still lacking. I guess I'm just spoiled because of UT. When I ask a question on UT about VFP I can expect someone to answer that day. After three days I still can not find an answer to my question on postgres 7.2 and Kylix 2 working. I've read 100's of news questions using google (remember you provided me that info) and I can't find anything.

John