The problem I had with LIST STATUS is everything at the top scrolls off when you issue it a second time. This is where stuff like the Collate setting is.

>Mark,
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>I did check with "List Status" but I better do it again. Maybe I missed something the first time around.
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>Thanks,
>Barbara
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>>I have had to resort to this more than once and it has helped me. Usually it is a private DS environment setting. What I do is DISPLAY/LIST STATUS under the conditions where it works and again under the conditions where it fails. I then compare all the settings.
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>>A better way would probably be to create a 2-D array in the form and populate with the environment variable and current setting [get all the variables from the SET DATASESSION list in the VFP Help]. Create another array with the settings in your default data session [DS #1]. Then compare the 2 arrays in the debugger.