Hi BB

I knew there were at least 3 ways of doing this (as usual in VFP). Just discovered in my other code:

If VERSION( 2) = 0

I recall an even older system of mine where $ and ".exe" appear ??? (I know, it's like giving the police a partial car registration number :-)

Terry


>>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.
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>>It's ... ?
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>>'ppreciate it
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>>Terry
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>? _VFP.StartMode
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>StarMode values from HELP:
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>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.
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