>>For some reason when I do this:
>>SET ECHO OFF
>>
>>...and then do this...
>>? SET("ECHO")
>>
>>...it still says ON !!
>>
>>Am I missing something obvious here? Is there something else that would be causing me to not be able to turn off echo?
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>Did you close the debugger window? I tried it to set it ON first, it opened the debugger window. I tried it to switch it then and it remained ON. Only after I closed the debugger it worked.

Interesting. Well I can see echo being turned on when you open the debugger window - but here is what else I found. I have a SET STEP ON in my code. Now back "in the old days" I used to comment those out when I would compile because VFP would toss and error - but it no longer does that - so often I'll just leave those in there. Well guess what - doesn't give an error - but it *does* turn echo back on, and once that happens in your .exe as a result of a set step on, doesn't look like a set echo off will work anymore.
ya know seems to me that this is a bug in VFP.