>Must we be happy with such a harsh killer? Tables may become 'corrupted'. I have corrupted here in quotes because I don't think that tables will get wrong headerinfo, but because they may loose their integrity when VFP was in the middle of some process like a programmed loop.
Peter,
Consider the other option, for some bug in your OnShutdown you are unable to kill the process, not a nice picture and even worse considering that sometimes even when you tell windows to shutdown it won't if it cannot kill the application.
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