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> from what I know about FoxPro technology, I have a hunch that it will outperform other xBase software at least on CD. < Perhaps. The May 11 issue of PC Mag looked at the current databases and noted in a sidebar that the newest version of dBASE IV is more or less equal to Fox in speed now. Also, note that you can now get similar technology as the Fox bit-optimized query technology, in a C database library called CODEBASE 5.0 (in case you want to code in C instead of Fox for your app). With regard to the comments about the suitability of traditional relational database software for CD applications, I would agree with a comment made in this thread: reducing disk accesses are exactly what database software attempts to do already. What's good for the goose (hard disk databases) should be good for the gander (CD rom databases).