Hi Len,

Yes, your supposition that suspend working after a fail tends to disqualify any memory leak as a cause is sensible, but who can say for sure, since we are not privy to exactly how VFP might allocate its RAm. For instance, it just might use separate stuff (already gotten) for command line stuff.

I generally wouldn't expect active and visible stuff to be affected by a diminishment of RAM. Typically new stuff (like your CreateObject) would be more prone to difficulty. My biggest problem with this whole SWAG is the syntax error message, which would seem odd for such a condition.

Well, good luck with it.

Jim N

>>What are the chances that you are running out of RAM (real or virtual)? Who knows how such a situation might exhibit itself, especially if you are not completely out of the stuff?!?!?!?
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>Jim, thanks for the reply, if we buy into the memory leak theory, wouldn't we expect the SUSPEND attempt to execute the command to fail also? The objects are still allocated, the debug window has instantiated (more memory drain) -- but the command works just fine... are my thoughts incorrect here?
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>-- Len