>>It sure would be nice to add your own variable[s] to the list of system variables whenever you launch VFP. Having these variables available during development and not subject to loss when you CLEAR ALL or RELEASE ALL.
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>>A prime example for me would be to have a line or 2 in my VFPStart.prg to create a variable called _UNC which defines a UNC path to my data on the server. Then all I have to do is CD (_UNC). This is much easier that CD \\r6rbs01\vol2\apps\water\myapp\data
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>>Anyone know if this can be done?
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>If you add a property to the _SCREEN object to hold the information, CLEAR ALL and RELEASE ALL have no effect on them. How's that?

I do that now. I have the mentality of the old Unix developers who came up with all the 2-character commands. :)