>>>I am troubleshooting a problem that could have been caused by function File() not finding a file in my .EXE. So I have a couple of questions:
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>>>1. Does FILE() look inside the .EXE file (just to be sure that this is a valid function to search in .EXE)?
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>>AFAIK no.
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>This is a shock to me as I have an important feature relying on this. I will double and triple check (not that I don't trust you). Thank you.

I don't have VFP handy so I can't verify that. I've never tried checking for files in an EXE in a VFP application, but AFAIK File was not designed to do that. I could be wrong. I was wrong once in the '70s :)