>Here is some code derived from legacy code. The TIMEOUT clause does not cause a time out after the specified number of seconds. Is this a known bug?

I'd lean toward it is not a bug per se, but incompatibility between legacy code (@ SAY/GET w/ READ CYCLE) and more current style of coding introduced with Visual FoxPro (OO-style form objects and READ EVENTS). Might be easier to simply redo the forms (often the underlying logic can be adapted -- in some cases it is simplified), than it would to try to apply various workarounds and have to deal with "quirky" behavior as a result..