I was thinking this over at night then it struck me I use DBCX to generate the DBCs (converting data when required) at each installation (this will avoid new structure changes problems), this means that I will have to keep the personal stuff in a table which can be scan to update this newly updated DBCs.

>Bhavbhuti,
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>>You mean some form with textboxes which gets values and then write these values to the dbc using setprop(). More wow,
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>Yes.
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>>I guess DOS tedium does not wear off easily still I feel like writing longer processes\logics <g>. I was feeling great that VFP is easier to code then in FPD, such work can be ultimate.
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>It will do you good to forget FP2.x *L*
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>>Do I have to compile the dbc as previously suggested? I will be writng small lines of code like IIF() or call an external PRG maybe using one of the utils to run PRG without compiling.
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>I've never tried changing those things on the fly, I'm not sure if you'll need to recompile the dbc or not.