>Barbara, I had checked help for #DEFINE before my posting (after pulling >out my old Clipper book to remind me how I used to do it), but it didn't >seem to allow for pseudo-commands. A second read a few minutes ago seems >to tell me it might work. I think tomorrow I'll put one in "clipper style" >and see what happens. > >Thanks, The fox help was never too clear on the subject, so one got an impression you could #define constants only. But then, it just goes substituting without paying much attention to what it substitutes, so you can substitute anything, just provided it's not somewhere in mid word, i.e. you can have your word replacing a group of words or any expression. I remember I've had a thing like #define cram =Fwrite(FileHandle, chr(13)+chr(10)+ Later in the source it read Cram "A row of text") Cram "...and more text") Seemed funny with unbalanced parentheses, but saved me a lot of typing.