Bill,

Can you use the .. alias to reduce the size of your path? My SET PATH for example is: ..\;..\..\;c:\program files\devstudio\vfp\tools\dftools I keep files common to all apps up one or two folders from where the app sits.

>Intermittantly I discover that my path has been chopped off to 256 characters.
>I never put the path into a variable and then restore it later, so I can't figure out what's doing it.
>My frmBase class tries to open a table that is located at the end of my path (in frmBase.Init()), so I discover this only when I try to run a form. By that time, I have no idea what might have done it. I've been developing since the last time the form was run.