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>1. we don't use SS from within vfp -- that's too time consuming.
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Then you're losing some of the capabilities of source control. VFP is slow because it converts to/from the text file when you check in/out. If you don't do it through VFP you check in/out the binary files, which greatly increases your storage space. With text files, VSS & PVCS both store just the delta code.