Nadya,
Thanks for the advice. An error being thrown was my first inclination as well but I'm afraid that is not the case.

Yes, I am sure I can spend more time on this and get it to work. However, this is such strange behavior that it has shaken my faith in VFP. So I can sleep at night I just need some kind of explanation on why it would behave this way. When I step through the code- I can watch the tables open in the view window perfectly. If I do not step through the code, they do not open.

What could a trace window change environmentally?

Thanks again,

Troy


> Hi Troy,

> What does ? on('error') return? You may have your own Error Handler, which
>doesn't show the errors on these commands. I also think, that instead of plain
>use better use wrapper function. This is my wrapper function for the use
>command:

>>Got some old code I just inherited. I'm running it in VFP6. It's in a prg- no database containers, no data buffering and no private data sessions.
>>
>>It has some USE statements:
>>USE DBFS\MIR_99 IN 0
>>USE DBFS\FAC_INFO IN 0
>>USE DBFS\SIZETYPE IN 0
>>
>>Now the weird part. If I put a break point or a SUSPEND in before the USE
>> commands, then they work perfectly. On the other hand, if I don't put a
>> break point in or I suspend immediately after the USE statements, then the
>>tables do not get USED which causes an error later.
>>
>>I've never seen anything like this before.
>>
>>I sure would appreciate any insight on why VFP would behave this way.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Troy