David,
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>Good post!

Thank you. It's sincerely appreciated.

>I only use program() in two places. One) to dump the call stack in my errorhandler. Two) to tell if a program has been run by itself in which case it presents a UI or has been called from another program so the UI is not needed/wanted.

That's about the same here. I must admit that the latter idea is a good deal more recent (last year or so) than the former.< s > Other than those two examples, I can't think of another place I'd use it.

>>Trey and Larry have already given you the answer. I, however, would strongly recommend against doing something like this. Basically, from what I understand, it'll break down functional cohesion. IOW, while the program may be doing two similar things, they won't be the same. This can cause you a great deal of problems later on.