An xBase (ExBase) dialect evolved in the Unix environment and now available for Windows platforms. http://www.fship.com/ For long-time Clipper, dBase, and FoxPro programmers, quite possibly the way to continue using several years of accumulated skills and bodies of code in current OS environments. ---- Anybody used this? Any insight? ---- Also used to speak of an object or product that is symbolic or important in some way. For example, the UssEnterprise is the FlagShip of the UnitedFederationOfPlanets. My boss used to speak of ElectronicMail being a FlagShip for our enterprise.