Chad,

I'm pretty sure you're right here. I think the only time this kind of thing can happen is if you build a standalone EXE in FP DOS.

>David,
> What do you mean by this. As far as I know the Fox runtime is a single file (or two) and everything is always distributed.
>
>>Mat,
>>
>>Just to add a little to the other replies, you are better off just building the phrases as strings and issuing:
>>
>>lcSQL = "from table..."
>>SELECT &lcSQL
>>
>>instead of
>>
>>lcSQL = "select ..."
>>&lcSQL
>>
>>If it should happen that you don't have any other SELECT statements in your code an .exe can fail with a "Feature Not Available" error because VFP wouldn't include the necessary support for the SELECT command since it didn't find any SELECT statements during the compile.