Just to confirm your hunch, Gene...VFP's import and export are excluded from distributable exes.

>>I have a menu that calls _mfi_export routine in VFP 5 and all goes right
>when I work in VFP but in the EXE file this option appears enabled and
>clicking in don't make anything.
>>
>
>Can't be sure, but certain options are not
>available from VFP runtime. This menu item
>could be one of them.
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