Jerry,

I just got am upgrade copy of Visio Pro 5. It did a fairly acceptable job of using ODBC to read the VFP DBC and built a diagram of the database. Visio is a great Automation tool and I'm planning on writing something in VFP to drive it to fill in the holes that their import wizard had.

>>>Is there a tool (third party) to generate hierarchical diagrams of a
>>>particular Data Dictionary?
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>>I don't know: what did you have in mind? I won't say anything about xCase until I'm sure what you're trying to do.... :-)
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>I won't be so shy.... xCase is a great tool! :-)
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>The problem I have with the DBC workspace is that all your
>hard work arranging and sizing tables is lost when you
>close it. There ought to be a Devuser.dbf to store such settings.