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>>A public is visible to the entire application but it is NOT cleaned up when the app ends. It hangs around and perhaps causes problems with other apps. Even if you release it at your apps end you may still have problems. ...
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>I seem to be missing something here. What is an "app" in your situation ?
>Do you have more apps within one VFP-session (task) ?

Hi Peter,

In the project, we are currently working on, there is a main application, called JobControl, which in turn calls lots of single unit applications. They may work as standalone (not all of them, but for mine I ensure this standalone functionality), but the main purpose of them is to work under main JobControl application. Each operation is considered as number of steps (job with steps). The simple job is to perform query from our database, format output, create some sort of report (it might be Excel, PDF, Printed report, Fox2x table, comma-delimited file, etc.), then send it to our customer. Therefore this kind of job consists of three steps and three separate applications are sequentially called. When all jobs were ran, we now can distribute them to the customer. Here works distribution module. It can send files by e-mail or FTP them, it can print files, which were outputed to file (report form to file command) and some more.

This is an example of one application consisted of number of smaller applications.