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>Here's a shot in the dark, but Fox sometimes had problems with ;'s if there was no space between it and the end of the line it continued. This was fixed in VFP, so I doubt it is it but it only takes a second to try. Just insert a space before each ; so you have;
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>SELECT Blah, Blah, Blah ;
> FROM Blah, Blah ;
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Yes, I noticed that in earlier versions - doesn't seem to make a difference here, tho. I'll have to noodle it out more to work around this, and perhaps in time we'll see a pattern.

Thanks anyway for your persistance....