Roxanne,

>We added the additional subdirectories to the SET PATH statement in StartMM() thinking the DEVPATH constant in the framework's setup.prg would carry them through to my runtime environment but it's not happening. I also tried adding the additional subdirs to the standard path in main.prg right after the call to the framework's setup.prg and still nada, just doesnt seem to stick. So to fudge it, we add to the SET PATH list right before we need to grab something from new directories, but still gotta code the first USE cmd with LOCFILE() just to get the data loading kicked off gracefully.

The trouble with SET PATH command doesn't work the way SET RELATION blah..blah ADDITIVE do. Only the current SET PATH will be recognized by the application.

We are also using framework, but it has a standard sub-directories that will be used even during the development and deployment. No changes and additional sub-directories so to speak.

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>What's the deal here... how can I extend the default path without the hassle of changing setup.prg and risk having the problem return with subsequent framework releases? TIA!