>>>>Please let me know if the above is not correct.
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>>>Aha, just "some other check", like I said in reply to Tamar.
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>>The problem (my problem) was that I was testing this function, GetGlobal(2) so much at the top of the application where the SET PROCEDURE was not yet declared. and the error code was that program GetGlobal.prg didn't exist.
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>You'd get that in IDE, when "available" is "is mentioned on the stack or in set procedure". In an exe, whatever is in the project, exists. So you'd not get that result in runtime, and would have to go back to thinking it over.
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>Yup, the test as it is now is more to the point - you are testing for a real clue as to whether the thing was set or not, i.e. the thing itself. The "do I have this function" test is obviously giving you wrong results (nonexistent before set procedure in IDE, always existent in exe).

I ended up with the following code:

cPath = GetGlobal(2)
If !type("cPath") = "C"
   cPath = pcExePath    && the pcExePath is a public variable set at the top of the program
endif