Christof,

Don't think so ... that is set up in my environment program "do dv" that I run about every third line (when in command window!) and has never changed.

thanks!
Ken

>Hi Ken,
>
>>turned out that simply re-indexing (or losing indexes!) solved the problem - must have been some hang-up woth that.
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>beside index corruption (which would have been my first guess), could it be that SET COLLATE somehow changed on your system? VFP won't use indexes if their collate sequence is different from the current one.
>
>Christof