>If it's a global var, why are you sending it as a parameter?
>Wouldn't the procedure have it available already?
>Also, is the parameter name the same as the global var? If so PARAMETERS makes it private, which may kill it; LPARAMETERS makes it local, which will kill it.

Hi,

The procedure is called from anumber of different places and it is only sometimes a global variable is send as a parameter.

The name of the globla variable is not the same as the parameter in the procedure. There is also no field with the same name as the variable or the parameter.

Thanks for your thoughts...