>>Sergey:
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>>Thanks for all the info.
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>>I'm making painful progress. I now have CLEAR EVENTS in the 'Close' button:
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>>Thisform.Release()
>>CLEAR EVENTS
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>>and READ EVENTS in the controlling program:
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>>DO FORM c:\posprgs\utils\skud.scx
>>READ events
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>>BUT, the following code works in the IDE, but not in the EXE. It is in a button called 'List Dupes', which is supposed to display a text file created in another button.:
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>>Thisform.ListDupes()
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>>*Method ListDupes - doesn't seem to execute
>>LOCAL lcPath
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>>lcPath = ADDBS(justpath(FULLPATH(thisform.FileName)))
>>MODIFY FILE (lcPath + 'SKUDUPES.TXT') NOEDIT 
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>>It's the MODI FILE that is not execcuting - I put in some WAIT WINDOW commands.
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>Try to specify a window with define window to view the file (MODI FILE ... in WINDOW).
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>Alternatively you can call Notepad with ShellExecute to view the file, but then you would need to set file attribute read-only first.
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>>One more problem: In the task manager I still see the EXE file exen after I close with thisform.release()
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>Make sure to add QUIT as the last line in your main program.

Why doesn't the MODI FILE work?