>>David,
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>>I meant to say...
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>>"The first time I ran it, I got the same thing you did! But after I went back to the command prompt and set date to MDY it ran properly after that...and I can't make it do it again, even after I unload and re-loaded VFP. Hmmmm?!"
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>>Sorry...it's late!
>Just for curiosity, I tried it "one more time" and it did it again! It seems to be a more than transient, let's call it "intermittent" bug!

I should add that I only initially reported the problem in FPW2.6 - haven't tried VFP yet.