Hehehehe...not always you get to answere your own questions.

I found the problem in the function uniqueflnm, it uses SYS(3) to generate a temp MEM file name and on fast machines the value does not have time to change so I got one MEM file overwriting the other and then when the restore takes place all f* memvars are gone.

>Hi,
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>I am responsible for supporting a foxpro 2.6 for Windows application (yes
>there are still some out there).
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>The problem I am having is every so often it refuse to build. I get a genscrnx screen with the following error. Variable ‘FSPROUT’ not found. I have tried copying in backup copies of the project which are known to work. I believe it is somehow or another exhausting resources.
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>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks,