>I am sure this has been answered before, but I have long ago lost my old command documentation. I need to fix a problem in some legacy code and need to know the complete systax for the @ ... GET command including formats and mask protocols. Specifically, i need the existing value (default) to be selected when the get is entered.

You can assign the value to the underlying field/variable from When function.

@ 4,4 get x when blabla()

...
function blabla
x=132
return .t.