>Bernard,
>
>You can try CHRSAW(). It is documented in teh help file. It will terminate on a keystroke, but it doesn't eat the keystroke.


Jim,

Frist off thanks for your prompt reply.
A useful function for what it was designed to do. But like the book says, terminates on a keystroke. Not useful for me as I could have keybrd entry going on while the timer was polling the hardware!!

Do you know if MS added a PAUSE Fn in VFP6.? If not then this is a glaring ommision and needs to be on the wish list.

Bernard