>Tom, we are putting the finishing touches on an application that we migrated from FPDos to VFP with the help of migrator program that I wrote, so I have some experience to say the following.
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>It's a cost/benefit decision. If you can rewrite the screens, do it. If your case is like ours, namely a very large application with lots of intricate rules and exceptions (it's a payroll for the laws of Panama), little spare time available to migrate, and relatively little economic payoff from migration, consider what we did. Our main goal was not to be character based and to base the application on a well thought out OOP framework (Codemine) for easier future evolution.
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>Once we gave up on the idea of simultaneously (and automatically !) migrating application data to a SQL server database, the migration moved relatively quickly. In the first stage data remains in the exact same free tables. As soon as we reach stabilty, product evolution will continue.
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>I'll provide you with the latest source to the migrator if you wish.

As a witness, I should say that Alex achievement is just great. They did an excellent job with Erick and Edwin. The application (PayDay) is not a converted DOS app, but a truly, fully OOP application. CodeMine helped a lot, but the real merit is actually for them.

See you,