> Do you know of a way to get a listing of internal error codes??? if I remember correctly the error code returned by other VFP API calls work ok (but I guess these are already "internal codes") btw I just checked and _Error() documentation does erfer you the numeric list of VFP error codes I'll test that if I'll have the time btw what is error 631? I would expect _Error(631) to generate error 1941 - error code not valid (s) did you check that with valid error codes? > For example using doing > _Error(631); > actually generates foxpro error code 230.... > Arnon