>Wouter,
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>I did think of another thing while driving last night. USE will display a File Open dialog if the table doesn't exist. If the .fpt or .cdx do not exist other dialogs will display.
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As a member of the people likely to fall into the 'stupid' camp, there's also the possibility that an error caught by the OS could be triggering a dialog from outside the VFP runtime itself; it's like the difference in behavior between Win9x and NT-derviced OS treatment of the 'Drive no ready' condition - WIn9x passes the error along to VFP to handle, while the default behavior of NT-derived environments is to pop a messagebox at the OS level rather than passing the error back to the app for handling, based on the setting of some OS-specific error handling behavior, and since the error is processed before VFP's error handler would ever have a chance to deal with it...

Just call me stupid!