Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro
An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works. Tells you the inside scoop on every command, function, property, event and method of Visual FoxPro.
Filer
Alas, poor Filer, we knew it well. Issuing this command in VFP 5 or later results in “Unrecognized command verb.” Not so much as a decent sendoff.
The good news, even though the command itself has been removed from the language, is that the Filer utility lives on. In the Tools/Filer subdirectory of your main VFP directory is a Filer form. It uses a Filer.DLL to do the heavy lifting of searching through the directory structures. The DLL is a COM object available to any COM hosting tool, like VFP.
The form supplied is just a sample of what can be done. The tool itself is a weak imitation of the power we used to have in Filer itself, but the code is clear and there are at least a few comments. Consider modifying and enhancing the sample form, or perhaps even using the DLL within your own forms for browsing and manipulating files.
Example
DO FORM LOCFILE(HOME()+"\tools\filer\filer.scx")