Hi Albert ---

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>VFP is a programmer's develoment environment. It comes down to a question of control. If the error is handled automatically by VFP the programmer has no control. You can trap that error and respond accordingly.

I would disagree with that assessment. a C0000005 error is an error close to the operating system while VFP is a 3, maybe 4GL and cannot be expected to be used as a tool for handling exception errors.