>If I want to distrib a vfp .exe program to a computer that has never heard of VFP, are there a few files(DLL's and what not) lurking on microsoft's site rather then create setup disks?

There are DLLs and Help files for VFP6.0, 7.0 and 8.0. I suppose that there will be VFP9.0 files after six months
http://vfp.narod.ru/Briefcase/Briefcase.htm