Cheers Abb,
      You are in for more surprises, getting complacent in your old age.
That is Miriam's second work on Access, her 1st, HELP! Microsoft Access,
came out a couple years ago. The good news is she has since done one for
FoxPro 3.0x! The most important item, is that you can catch up with her
every month, in Miriam's FoxPro Advisor column. Miriam is an extremely
bright lady, the market for Access books is probably 20 times that of FP.
      Here in the high-tech mecca, I have seen few books on FPW 5, and I
really looked again just recently ( I understand they have a bigger
selection, in the Lone Star State). I do not feel 5 adds that much to
what you have in 3.0, it just does it better & Faster. I think 95% of
what is in one of the better tomes on 3 will still apply to 5 also. So,
I will still recommend the basically the same titles:
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The Complete FoxPro 2.5 Language Reference by David McClanhan & Ray Owens
ISBN: 0-7821-1101-7    SYBEX Inc.  Telex: 336311  Fax: (510) 523-2373
(Covers both the FoxPro for Windows and FoxPro for DOS)
Visual FoxPro Expert Solutions   by Miriam Liskin    from Que Corporation
The Visual FoxPro 3 Codebook  by Y. Alan Griver/SYBEX  ISBN: 0-7821-1648-5
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      Miriam's book starts with an introduction to database basics and
takes you all the way to building a fairly complex FoxPro Application.
Alan's piece is almost the opposite. It seems to assume a lot of
knowledge and focuses on coding style and technique. There is one more
that I found impressive, but I am not sure if it is out for 3.0 yet:
FoxPro 2.5 for Windows   Developing Full-Scale Applications
By Nelson King   on MIS Press      ISBN: 1-55828-261-0
Nelson's book is in between, little introductory material, but much more
explanation than the Codebook. It is about 1000 pages, versus ~1260 for
Miriam's and about 480 for the Codebook. I think all three are $50 (US)
and Yes they all have the complete source code on a disk!
                                                          Have a ball,
                                                          den
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