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>From the comments in the help system, it seems obvious that when they marked it as backwards-compatible, they were thinking about developing a form for interactive input with @...say, @...get and READ, but forgot about the other use of @...say: to create text-files.
Hi Hilmar. There are numerous ways in which this command is still useful. For instance, I use @...say all the time when writing small test prg's and want to display various progress or stats info on the VFP screen as it runs.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.