I'm not 100% sure but I don't believe you can escape out of a SELECT. If [Esc] is presses during the SELECT I believe FoxPro waits until it's fininshed to process your ON ESCAPE CODE. One thing you might want to check instead of RECCOUNT is _TALLY to see how many records the SELECT returned.

>Have you tried using..."IF LASTKEY()=27..."?
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>>I have a built-up command as follows:
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>>cCommand = 'SELECT * FROM WHERE'
>>cCommand = cCommand + ' THIS_TEST '
>>cCommand = cCommand + ' THAT_TEST '
>>cCommand = cCommand + ' INTO CURSOR MyCursor'
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>>Then I run it using &cCommand But I allow the user to ESCAPE out of the process if they wish. How do I know if the SELECT statement finished or if it was aborted? I don't know beforehand, how many records to expect so I cannot test reccount(), is there another way?
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>>I've used ON ESCAPE DO CancelSQL, then set a flag in CancelSQL but this requires a seperate procedure file. I was hoping to simply test a system variable or something like that.
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>>Thanks in advance