>>>>>The code your sent works ok for me - in both cases I have only ShowMessage1 messagebox. NT SP6, VFP 6.0 SP3. How to run it? Maybe it is depended on the default VFP settings, like SET ANSI or SET EXACT?
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>>>>I only have it if the table name is contact. Is contact a reserve word?
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>>>No it's not on the list of reserved words.
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>>We have this situation pretty severe on 3 PC now. My workstation which is off the segment of the server and another PC on the server segment.
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>>We never saw anything like this. We can open some existing tables and some will generate the bug. However, whatever we create in VFP now will always generate the bug.
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>It looks like you changed something recently. Just SWAG, Could it be SET COLLATE or something similar related to the code page?

Code page is 1252 and collate to machine.