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>>N/A. This is a function in a prg.
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>Hi Chris,
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>Just my 2 cents. I had the similar issue when was working with DOS FP 2.5a. I had a function myfunc in the file myfunc.prg and the first line in myfunc.prg was
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>FUNCTION myfunc
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>When I commented that line, the performance speeded up drastically. Sorry, but I've never checked this fact in Visual FP.
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I have tested this. When I tested in VFP 7, the penalty was gone, but it was there through VFP 6.

Tamar