>Programatically, how do I run this command? The table name is mmenu.

&field

You can not use the table.field syntax in this case cuz the . in the middle will terminate the expansion. So save it to alocal variable first if needed. If this is a nulti line memo field, you can do:

StrToFile(table.field, 'temp.prg')
compile temp.prg
do temp

Anything can go in this case.