Hi Benjamin,

The following is from the VS6SP3.CHM file in the main VFP directory (this is an updated file from the documentation):

StartMode Property
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Contains a numeric value that indicates how an instance of Visual FoxPro was started. Read-only at run time.

Syntax
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ApplicationObject.StartMode

Value Description
----- -----------
0 A development version of Visual FoxPro was started in an interactive
session.

1 Visual FoxPro was started as an application object. For example, the
following command creates an instance of Visual FoxPro as an application
object:
oMyObject = CREATEOBJECT('VisualFoxPro.Application')

2 Visual FoxPro was started as an out-of-process .exe automation server.

3 Visual FoxPro was started as an in-process .dll automation server.

4 Visual FoxPro was started as a distributable .app or .exe file.

5 Visual FoxPro was started as an in-process .dll automation server for
multithreaded use.


HTH.

>Evan,
>
>When I look in the documentation it says only 0 through 4. Can you tell me what the 5 stands for?