? _VFP.StartModeStarMode values from HELP:
0 A development version of Visual FoxPro was started in an interactive session. 1 Visual FoxPro was started as an application object. For example, the following command creates an instance of Visual FoxPro as an application object: 2 Visual FoxPro was started as an out-of-process .exe automation server. 3 Visual FoxPro was started as an in-process .dll automation server. 4 Visual FoxPro was started as a distributable .app or .exe file. 5 Visual FoxPro was started as an in-process .dll automation server for multithreaded use.