Michelle,

I undersood, what you mean. Unfortunatelly, there is no such function in VFP.

The simplest way to imitate it, though, is:

private pcErrMsg
on error pcErrMsg=message()
error myNumber
?pcErrMsg
on error

>Not quite what I meant... I need something like:
>
>lcMessage = GetErrMess(3)
>
>The result would be: lcMessage = "File is in use".
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michelle
>
>>Simple example:
>>

>>private pcErrMsg
>>on error pcErrMsg=message()
>>