>>>I ran into this some years ago. I think the reason is that some VFP controls don't accept chr(7) as a valid keyboard input. If one of these controls has focus when you issue that call, nothing happens.
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>>Then instead of using ??, he can
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>>wait chr(7) nowait
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>>instead.
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>Nice trick!

Still waiting for Brad... Alessio to hear whether he heard it. I.e., does this work for him or not.