I think, in the back of my mind, I was aware of this problem but since it has never happened to me before I disregarded it (sloppy). I posted it because there are probably many people like me and this is just a reminder not to do this. Intestingly enough, if the 'test' table is not the selected table when the second prg is run the results reflect the local vars in the second program. This could make for a nasty intermittant error.

Are you sure that is on page 123? I have all the manuals going back to FoxBase+ Multiuser edition and I can't find it (: