>>I'm having a brain seizure. I can't remember the technique for determining whether it's the exe main prog running or it's just being run from the command line.
>>
>>It's ... ?
>>
>>'ppreciate it
>>
>>Terry
>
>? _VFP.StartMode
>
>StarMode 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.
>

Thanks BB. Prompt as usual. It's as if you're just the other side of the room from me.

Hmmmm, as usual VFP offers several means of achieving this, and this is one I've not seen.

I'll give it a go.

Cheers

Terry