... system variables

?_DOS
?_WINDOWS
?_UNIX
?_MAC

MartinJ

>Thanks Sergey but what would be the point of putting this in the program when I KNOW it's only run in DOS? BTW, I'm scheduled to replace ALL this sorry suite of FPD progs with a new VFP system :-)
>
>>

#IF "VISUAL" $ UPPER(VERSION())
>>  SET STRICTDATE TO 0
>>#ENDIF
>>

>>>>
>>>>SET STRICTDATE TO 0 for backward compatibility
>>>>
>>>>MartinJ
>>>
>>>Thanks Martin, but I'm only testing the app in VFP; it has to return to and be comiled in an FPD environment. So this command would give an error.
>>>
>>>Besides, is this error not because the date string is no longer getting "converted" in the Append ... SDF command?