Not sure why that would hurt backwards compatibility. That problem has bitten me many times in VFP5. It would be nice if it produced a compile error instead of just weird behaviour. There shouldn't be any apps without that space now, unless they fixed it in VFP 6.

Michelle

>Something possibly dreadfully dangerous to backward compatibility caught my eye. Deep into the SQL-Select write-up is a simple statement:
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> " Note Be sure to include the space immediately preceding each semicolon. Otherwise, you'll receive an error. "
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>I've gotta believe that beta testers can confirm/deny this.
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>Answers??
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>JimN