Check into the _SHELL system variable ... I've seen it in prior apps being set _SHELL = " " to apparently disable, that could be what you are running into.

>Greetings,
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>For some reason, when I run my VFP9 application in debug mode, the command window disappears. This only started happening a couple of weeks ago. Is there some setting I can use to keep the command open during debugging?
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>Thanks!
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>Scott