Steve,
Hell,
I want to give you stars for that information! I never knew the why, only the what...
Renoir
>Nadya,
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>When you highlight several lines in the command window and execute them, you have (in effect) created a temporary program and run it. This temporary program does not finish executing until after you close the program manager. To test it, highlight all three of the following lines and hit enter:
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>cd ..\batchcntrl
>modi proj batchcntrl
><b>? "Hello Nadya"</b>
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>>I highlight them both and hit enter. Then I experience this weird and very annoying behavior. Seems like VFP bug. Interesting, is it still a problem in VFP7.0? If I do it line by line, this problem did not appear...
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>>This cost me several hours of frustration...