>>In a new application for an old system, we have a very complicated program being called by another program, and after 10 calls, we get a " too many variables" error.
>>We tried calling it from the command window and go the same result. 1 -9 are OK, 10 crashes.
>>If you leave VFP and come back in you can only run the program from the command window 10 times again you get the" too many variables error".
>>We tried RELEASE ALL between calls but that didn't help.
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>>Any suggestions?
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>My first reaction is that the program would leave public variables, whose name changes every time. However, these should go away with a CLEAR ALL or similar commands.

CLEAR ALL is just about guaranteed to kill any running app, isn't it?