I appreciate your help and input. I only came to VFP at ver. 5.0 (which is still not an excuse that I don't know so much). I only use about 20% of my work time in development, so I need all the help I can get. And this forum is great for that.
>I wrote it but didn't test, just did this mostly from memory. Please be sure to initialize/scope the variables properly, etc <s>.
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>But it *is* tested as a general scenario; I've been delivering files this way for FoxPro apps since FoxPro 1.x. I used to deliver a bootstrap INSTALL.PRG and an INSTALL.DBF, before we had projects and APPs <s>.
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