I know this is too late to help the original poster, but as a general rule, I believe use of _TALLY is a bad idea. I don't know of anything it gives you that you can't get with a more deterministic (i.e., less likely to give you these sorts of problems) approach. For instance, instead of

COUNT
?_TALLY

I would prefer

COUNT TO lnMyVar
?lnMyVar

Just my 2 cents :)
zahid

>Noted and logged, George. Thanks for spotting it. I'd like to point out that there is nothing wrong with _TALLY in code; this is just a Command Window issue.
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>>Since getting VFP7, we've been seeing _TALLY anomolies.
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>>Sometimes when we issue ?_TALLY from the command window, it comes back with 1 or 922. It had been perplexing us until today.
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>>We have 922 records in FOXCODE.DBF. If we turn off IntelliSense, we never get erroneous results from _TALLY.
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>>Is this new feature (counting IntelliSense in _TALLY results) bothering anyone else?
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>>EXAMPLE:
>>If I issue the following commands from the command window:
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>>USE v_prod
>>COUNT
>>? _TALLY
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>>I get 1 sometimes. There are 2449 records in this table. Subsequent counts return _TALLY of 2449.