Hi Bob,

I agrre that it's cleaner and most usefull when calling VFP EXE from batch files/scripts. There's no easy way to access tables in such case and using files requires some kind of cleanup.

>Thats in interesting tidbit I never stumbled across, Thanks
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>Another way would be to output a results file or record, but I like this better because it is more consistant with other functions.
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>Bob
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>>Greg,
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>>See Exiting Visual FoxPro returning an error level FAQ #7767