Thanks

>>Can you post the code (from VFP6) that Beautify mangles -- both before and after? .... still curious here.
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>The following is a small part of the startup file, vfxmain.prg, used in the Visual Extend framework. This was designed for Visual FoxPro 6.
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>

>* BEFORE BEAUTIFY:
>IF VARTYPE(goprogram) = "O"
>	RELEASE gcoldtalk, gcolddir, gcoldpath, gcoldclasslib, gcoldescape, gcoldresource
>
>	#ifdef _debug_mode
>	IF VERSION(2)=2
>		goprogram.debugmode(.T.)
>	ENDIF
>	#ENDIF
>
>	IF VARTYPE(_VFP)=="O"
>		_VFP.VISIBLE = .T.
>	ENDIF
>endif
>
>
>* AFTER BEAUTIFY (with Tabs) (using Visual FoxPro 6, SP5)
>IF VARTYPE(goprogram) = "O"
>	RELEASE gcoldtalk, gcolddir, gcoldpath, gcoldclasslib, gcoldescape, gcoldresource
>
>	#ifdef _debug_mode
>	IF VERSION(2)=2
>		goprogram.debugmode(.T.)
>	ENDIF
>#ENDIF
>
>IF VARTYPE(_VFP)=="O"
>	_VFP.VISIBLE = .T.
>ENDIF
>endif
>
>
>* VFP 9 ACTUALLY IMPROVES IT:
>IF VARTYPE(goprogram) = "O"
>	RELEASE gcoldtalk, gcolddir, gcoldpath, gcoldclasslib, gcoldescape, gcoldresource
>
>	#ifdef _debug_mode
>		IF VERSION(2)=2
>			goprogram.debugmode(.T.)
>		ENDIF
>	#ENDIF
>
>	IF VARTYPE(_VFP)=="O"
>		_VFP.VISIBLE = .T.
>	ENDIF
>endif
>

>
>I hadn't tested this with VFP 9 previously. Of course, the actual file is much larger; so (in Visual FoxPro 6) I had to search a while to find the "offensive" lines.