>>>>>>>>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?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I only have it if the table name is contact. Is contact a reserve word?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>No it's not on the list of reserved words.
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>MIchel,
>>
>>I figured this out. Change you ERROR metod

>>FUNCTION Error
>>PARAMETER nError,cMethod,nLine
>><b>MESSAGEBOX('ErrorMethod')</b>
>>RETURN TO ShowMessage

and run your code. You wouldn't see ErrorMethod message because COUNT FOR IRegion=lnRegion doesn't generate an error!
>
>Sergei,
>
>Michel said that it produced an error, but I gather that you are saying this particular error doesn't trigger an Error event. If so, that's a COUNT command bug I didn't know about, but guess an aggregate SELECT command could generally be used as a workaround.
>
>Mike

You can also use

SELECT IRegion FROM mytable WHERE IRegion=lnRegion TO SCREEN NOCONSOLE