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Thanks Ramani and Jim, It seems that some days you are the windshield and some days you are the bug! The substitution (&) worked fine Jim. Ramani, I had to use the substitution in your idea as well and it works just fine. Thanks again for your input. George

VFP5.0 I am trying to let the user select a file, using GETFILE, to copy to a floppy. I use PUTFILE() to allow the selection of the same OR different output filename. I am using low level file manipulation for the purpose of getting better control of the progress bar so the user doesn't sit...

Well I'll be!! That is certainly a kick in the head. I appreciate all of you taking the time to educate me even though I don't much like the answer <g>. Thanks to all for responding. This is a great forum. George

All, I think I may have stumbled on part of the answer. VFP5.0 apparently does not support 'AddProperty'. But, my question still is, can anyone explain the reason/logic I cannot add a unique property to a form in a formset or if added to the formset, is this property available to all forms...

Ramani, thanks for you response. Here is what I tried. I opened my project, added a new form then from the menu, created a formset, then I added another form to the formset. I now have a formset with two forms in it. I then attempted to add a property to say, form1 of the formset by selecting...

VFP5.0 I had a need to add a property to a form within a formset that already existed. I discovered I could add a property to the formset but not to any of the forms within the formset. Can any of you shed some light on why, and how would one work around this apparent restriction? In my case...

VFP5.0 I have noticed the same issue. On occasion, without any known sequence of keypress or other specific known user activity, one or in some cases many records were lost completely. Anytime the program is started, I check and on error, (index does not match table), automatically delete and...

I agree with the comments above. I do not have the experience most of you apparently have and it is very rewarding to know there is a place where I can ask for help and it is freely given. I hope that one day I may be able to help someone in like manner. Thanks to all! George

Dave, thanks for your efforts and help. Although your work gets me close, my goal was to only hilite a single cell with only the user input 'searchtext' hilited in that single cell. The user could then use the up/down arrow keys to scroll through any other records that met the filter criteria...

VFP50 I have a need (strong desire?) to be able to select and highlight portions of text found in grid cells based on a text input box as part of a table search. Is this a legal move? I so far have not been able to make it work. I can select the row and even the specific cell but it seems to...

Guys, I really appreciate your help and kudos to Mike Lewis for publishing the FoxStuff site! I will experiment with ShellExecute(). Chris, how did your user discover his backup to the zip drive was not working? George

Chris, again thanks for your response. I stand corrected. After further testing to try to understand why I was getting inconsistent results when extracting files from the cab, (sometimes it seemed to work and sometimes not), I have come to the conclusion you are right and the embedded macro...

Chris, thanks for your response. Even though I had been working on this bit of code for a number of hours, I failed to discover all the command options for cabarc. It seems the trouble was with my assumptions. Without the '-o' command option, the extraction will not overwrite same named...

I found faq184-145 by ChrisRChamerlain and found it very informative. The compression portion of cabarc seems to be working just fine. However, I am having trouble with the extract side. I am using cabarc with VFP5.0 to compress all data tables as part of my user selected backup/restore...

Rick, thanks for your response. I have not installed SP3 yet and the application is running in a single user environment; no network. Thanks, George