>I built a temp.prg file and pass values into it and it works (design time). If I attempt to do it after I built the executable vfp displayed a syntax error. How would you go about passing parameters after building an executable file?

You mean how do you pass parameters to an EXE? Something like MyEXE.EXE PARAM1 from the run line, but the Main prg has to accept them, and they're all passed as characters