How can I get the current date and time from the internet and can I specify
a time zone?  Is there a windows API call or what do I need?
Thanks,
Mike

After installing a VFP 8 app. using an Installshield procedure (my first
attempt), other MicroSoft Apps (Word and Outlook) go into "install mode"
when the user tries to run them!
This is on one only of the 3 PCs, on which the install has been done.

VFP8 SP1 (XP)
I did something to cause the property sheet to display when my user
starts the program. It didn't used to do this and I can't figure which
of my many mods may have caused this.

I am not at all clear on how ODBC views work, and can use some
clarification.
I have a database that contains two such views - header_view and
detail_view - into an AS400 dataset.  At the moment, I only need to

ChicagoFUDG welcomes Cathy Pountney on August 14 when she will impart some of
her accumulated wisdom about using the VFP report writer highlighting the new
beast introduced with Version 9 - the ReportListener. It gives you the
ability to extend your reports beyond the native ...

In a VFP 6 report what would I use to build an expression to find a
date field (inspection date)that has nothing in it?
JPC

No new messages since 7/28.

Just wondering if MS has an official position on running vfp6 apps under
vista
Have they come out and said "don't do it" or provided any detail as to what
things may go wrong?

I have Outlook and Outlook Express.
Is there any way to send an email via VFP without having to buy a 3rd-party
ActiveX and preferably utilizing the Outlook/Express ActiveX?
Thanks

I have started using Vista. My app writes and reads to/from the registry and
that works fine in WP and W2K.
Vista does not like this. It does not allow my app to write to the registry
and when the app tries to read from the registry the respond is an error

We are porting our applications from VFP 6 to VFP 9.  A problem has
arisen regarding printing - I am pasting this in from my colleague
Bill - thanks in advance for your suggestions.  We are printing a
legal-sized (11 x 14 inches) document via a VFP report form:

The following remark was never made & cannot be attributed to WR:
While working at JPL Pasadena and when asked why programming in what was to
become dBase was so easy, programmer Wayne Ratliff remarked:
"...why sure, it ain't brain surgery after all, it's rocket science."

I'm a 60-year-old who spent a few thousand hours working with FoxeBase
+ 2.1 in the late 1980's first in the Air Force and later for home
projects.  I've continued to use it frequently over the years since
for projects at home and just don't have the time to learn another

When I "save as" in Word 2003, the new file is much larger than the original
-- like one and a half or two times as large (example: 666mb to 1.16kb).
Anyone else have this problem? Any solutions?

Before Vista, I could keep application files in All Users\Application Data\
or Program Files\myapp\. Both those locations are not exactly secure, but
relatively safe from casual users who could be scared off by Windows's "Are
you sure you want to display these files?" warnings.