>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.
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>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.

I could agree with your assesment except that VFP seems to be getting more and more low level capabilities (look at the API capabilities that have been added in VFP.) It is really a philosophical issue. I suspect that most VFP programmer's will decide that they have no use for trapping that error and that Microsoft will handle it internally.

P.S. I would really like an improved error handling capability. Although the current scheme has good features, I would like a throw...catch capability. Failing that, a push error/pop error would do. Actually push/pop/clear for both all and individual sets and ons would be very handy.