Thanks guys. That's just what I needed.

>>I remember seeing reference to a fox development variable that you could test to determine if the application is running in the development environment or the production environment. Can someone refresh my memory on how to do this?
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>>Thanks
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>In addition to what Hilmar posted.
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>_vfp.StartMode:
>0 means: A development version of Visual FoxPro was started in an interactive session.
>See 1 through 5 in help.