>Fred,
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>When you tried to run the COMPILE DATABASE command, did you try it from a standalone EXE using only the VFP6 runtime libraries. You cannot try to use this command while running your program from the Development Environment.
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>Compile a new EXE that has a COMPILE DATABASE command in it and run it as a standalone to test. It won't work.

I did, and it does. How does it not work for you?