Hi Tommy Try the following SET TALK NOWINDOW this will directs talk to the main Visual FoxPro window. Don't forget that SET TALK is by datasession.

>Hi !!
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>I am having one of those moments here....
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>I am trying to remember the correct SET command for this....
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>I have a legacy program that does maintenance on FoxPro databases (3.0 and up), and the only output is to the StatusBar at the bottom of the Foxpro Screen...
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>What command do I need to issue to get output to go to the Screen instead...
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>I've tried
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>SET CONSOLE ON
>SET TALK ON
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>but no go...
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>so what am I missing?
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>ps.... this is for PACKing the data and reindexing.....
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>Thanks a bunch!!