Hi Brendan ----

>At the time of posting this message 26+ replies!!!!. To my way of thinking this indicates a problem with the VFP6 runtime environment. We all seem quite willing to accept a lengthy wait while the development environment is loaded, (simple programs WILL run faster from the command window than those compiled as an exe).
>

It's the hit we take in working with a 4-GL. C coders laugh at BASIC coders who laugh at us. The higher up the interpretive ladder, the slower the EXE. I know, not always, before somebody starts naming exceptions :-)

>What has happened? has the attraction of a GUI environment corrupted us all ?
>Compare your results to a (GOD forbid!) DOS or UNIX based system running an earlier version of FoxPro, any differences?.
>

I don't know if that is fair. Sure, our DOS and UNIX stuff used to run swiftly and less buggy, but the trade-off was that all that stuff was top-down, menu-driven and empowered the developer and not always the user. The user could choose his or her interface as long as it was 80x25 lines :-) and , sometimes, we'd actually let them have up to 8 colors!