Great to know! I had always tried MODIFY FILE with files I had previously accessed with MODIFY COMMAND, especially PRG-files!

Hilmar.

>>>FYI, MODIFY FILE will eliminate the syntax highlighting while keeping you within VFP.
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>>I've seen this tip before, but it doesn't work with me: I get S.H. all the same. Perhaps this was considered a bug, and corrected in later versions of VFP. I am using VFP 6, SP5.
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>I believe this is due to some info being saved in the resource file, because I did this in the Command Window:
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>*- Started VFP6 SP5 w/SET RESO ON
>lcText = [FUNCTION MyUDF()] + CHR(13)+CHR(10)+[RETURN "Hello"]
>STRTOFILE(lcText, "TestSH.prg")
>modi comm testsh      &&  syntax coloring, as expected.
>modi file testsh.prg  &&  syntax colored, NOT expected.
>set reso off
>modi file testsh.prg  &&  no syntax coloring, as expected.
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