You can't trap for this error in VFP. This is from the OS. VFP has crashed, so your VFP error handler is gone.

What caused this error?

Dave

>Before I have this error message and I was able to correct the error in my program:
>
>------------
>This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
>If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
>------------
>
>But now I have this error message again. How do I trap the error when this error message appears?
>Consider my error handler routine in my program:
>
>lcOnError = 'Error number:'+LTRIM(STR(ERROR()))+' ,Line number:'+LTRIM(STR(LINENO()))
>ON ERROR MESSAGEBOX(message()+chr(13)+ lcOnError,16,"System Error")
>
>I am using VFP5
>
>Please HELP!