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>3) if you RELEASE the memvar it goes away, absolutely unequivocally the memvar is gone. Have you bothered to do a DISP MEMO afterwards? If so you'd see that the release did work exactly as it is supposed to. It released a memvar. In fact if you read the VFP6 help on RELEASE the word "object" does not appear in the topic anywhere!
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David

This statement set me on a search for something I was *sure* I had read in the VFP documentation. The Developer's Guide does say that RELEASE *releases the original object* , however it also says that "releasing the object does not clear the object from memory". So appearently their is some difference between the commonly held definition of release and the strict VFP difinition. President Clintons lawyers should be proud of team VFP for this one. *g* (See page 72 of the V5 Developer's Guide under the heading "Releasing Object and References from Memory".)