>hi everyone,
> is there anyone who can give the advantages and disadvantages of visual foxpro over foxpro DOS?...
>
>thanks..
>
>ailene

The main disadvantage is that it requires more hardware - but it must be a very old machine if it can't run at least VFP 3.

To learn the new features of VFP requires to learn a lot, but it is worthwhile. In the meantime, VFP is quite compatible with FoxPro.

To the advantages Jess mentioned, I want to add:

Buffering.

Support for views (updatable queries).

Support for JPG and GIF images (take up less space than BMP).

New field types, that use up less space: DateTime, 8 bytes; Integer, 4 bytes; Currency, 8 bytes; Double, 8 bytes; also, memo only uses 4 bytes instead of 10 in the DBF).

And all sorts of new commands, like StrToFile(), FileToStr() and alines(), to quickly access any file on disk; MessageBox(), to quickly show a message in a window; and many more.

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