Hi Barry,

Don't let its lack of IDE bog you down. You can always use the vfp ide to edit the prgs or any other editor (I used to use a product called Zeuss), keep a window open with the Norton Guides, another open with a cmd line so you can compile/link/run (as someone suggested, create a batch file that will compile/link everything).

Also, using today's extremely fast pc's compile/linking doesn't take but a few seconds.

Really, the only thing you should be worried about is the fact that you'll be working on someone else's code. That alone is your only nightmare in this project.

Have fun!

Alex


>thanks gentlemen. unfortunately you've all just confirmed my nightmare. let this be a lesson to us all (especially me) not to take on projects without knowing at least something about what we're getting ourselves into!
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>so, bearing in mind your advice, if anyone can offer any good programming practices for the clipper (non-)environment then i'd be most grateful. eg. how to debug, whether there's any help files i can refer to on-screen etc.
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>many thanks for your time...