>Hi Dan
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>>Just eliminating the linked variable fixes the problem.
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>This isn't true! I beleive Shawn says that there was a read events after his form was run (it would be nice to see your code Shawn). This code fires up the form and leaves it there:
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do form MyFormFile1 name MyForm linked
>read events

But I believe he said he's calling this from a menu procedure. If that's true then wouldn't this cause the variable to go out of scope?