Yup, I tested it too. There were no errors. I don't know what the VFP team has changed, but in the past I remember getting problems if there weren't spaces where they belonged. The rule I remember was "code the command as if it were all on one line"

>The following, without indents, works on my computer (VFP6):
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>select;
>artcode;
>from;
>articlemain
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>although, according to your comment, it should give an error.
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>I think the people at MS simply corrected the problem (say, by adding a space when joining lines), and forgot to remove the warning from the manual.
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>Hilmar.
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>>The problem with the semi colon is that VFP puts the line back together when it compiles, so if you have something like:
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>>SELECT Field1,;
>>Field2;
>>FROM;
>>MyTable
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>>you'll get errors because there are no spaces where they belong. If you indent the additional lines, you won't have a problem. This has always been the case. They're just providing a warning about it in VFP7.