>>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.
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>>Any one have any ideas why it might happen?
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>>TIA
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>The SET PATH command is limited to 256 characters.

Hate to tell you, but I just went and checked the length of my path and it was 342 characters.