>>>Sorry about the upper(). I took your advice it did something.
>>>The form no longer gets ignored but the program itself does not continue after the form executes but seems to be hung up.
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>>you have to issue clear events, after read events to terminate the program.
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>I am supposed to do form getname, then issue read event, then issue clear event,then do menu mymenu? It still seems caught in that infinite loop :(

Basically, VFP app should contain just one common READ EVENTS. Following is a sample of first prg module

*** set environment here
do mainmenu.mpr
read events
*** clean environment here

Your main menu should have 'Quit' option with CLEAR EVENTS command.
Also remember that modal form will 'stop' app until you close it.