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>My suspicion is that they want to see stacks of hardcopy documentation and listings like the old mainframe days, not something practical like within-app documentation. Well, if so, I'm sure I can provide a zillion pages of what looks impressive to them! Enough for now, anyway.

If you want to kill a few trees and dazzle them with impressive stacks of hard copy documentation, you can create the zillions of nicely formatted pages with a couple of tools that I have used with very little effort or expense. My personal favorite is PDM written and supported by Martin Jindra (Available in UT downloads or at http://www.eqeus.com/). It quickly produces very handy, useable and searchable HTML documentation of VFP projects and it is free. I use it to document all my projects and I can recreate the project documentation in just a few minutes whenever anything changes. It is a also a useful tool for quickly looking up code in functions to see what it does, how to call it or copy and paste code without even opening up the source file or taking a chance of introducing an error in the source code. I sometimes document just the databases with PDM and include the generated HTML document in the application as part of the help file if the user needs to know how how the data is stored.

Another one that I have tried is a shareware program called RapidDoc from http://www.foxwiz.com/. It is very good and produces a nicely formatted, hyperlinked Word document of your project in a very useable format. Either tool can be used to quickly and easily create project documentation which can be printed for those who want a binder of hard copy documentation for a door stop or whatever.
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