>That's an interesting take on the matter, and I'd like to hear more.

Jim,

To be fair, I don't have direct experience with coding an app to work specifically with free tables. My experience comes from having worked with Clipper source code and tables, which to me would likely be the same scenario as using VFP w/free tables. And boy, did we have our share of corruption in our app with Clipper data. I gladly stand corrected if that's an incorrect assumption.

Laterness,
Jon