Dear Kenneth,

I could reproduce it

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>Folks,
>
>I lost a half-hour or so today before determining that Visual Foxpro is failing to trap a certain error. Specifically, if you attempt to copy file1 to file2, while file2 is open, the user gets the error, not the error trapper.
>
>Following is code to reproduce. Does anyone else get the same result?
>
>Special: Two points to the person who comes up with the most creative doublespeak explaining why this is not a bug, but a feature.
>
>CODE BEGINS HERE:
>

>*
>*  FAILED ON ERROR COMMAND
>*  by Kenneth Downs
>*  ken.downs@msginet.com
>*
>CLOSE ALL
>
>*  Get a table open under
>*  an alias different from
>*  its Stem
>*
>CREATE TABLE NoError1 (Field1 C(5))
>USE
>USE NoError1 ALIAS IAmNoError1
>
>*  Get another table open
>*
>SELE 0
>CREATE TABLE NoError2 (Field1 C(5))
>
>*  Create a simple flag that
>*  will go to -1 if the
>*  command fails on an error
>*
>LOCAL lnError,lcError
>lcError = ON("ERROR")
>ON ERROR lnError = -1
>lnError = 0
>
>*  Attempt to copy the 2nd table
>*  to the first, triggering
>*  an error, which does NOT
>*  get triggered
>*
>SELE NoError2
>COPY TO NoError1
>