>>>>>>I have evaled R&R, and Crystal, and am going round and
>>>>>>round with tech support at MicroMega Systems (FoxFire!)
>>>>>>without much success, so I think I'm gonna end up writing
>>>>>>the code by hand (gack).
>>>>>>
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>I'd be curious as to why Crystal Reports (Version 5 or 6) wouldnt
6.0 with the latest M$ ODBC drivers & the obscure .dll that generates
the SQL.
>work for you?? Visual Foxpro comes with an ActiveX control that
>allows us to launch a simple Crystal Reports EXE from our
>apps and we access the Data Via ODBC... Works very well...

My tables are on different drives which forces me to use different datasources.
As best I can determine, Crystal is having a problem linking across different
datasources when working with free tables.

>I hope you didnt judge Crystal based on the Version 4.56.8.3b That
>comes with the Visual Studio...???

Nope.