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>Hilmar,
>
>As with everything else, there are, as you and Armin have demonstrated, a number of ways to handle this situation. Assuming there are three steps, you could

LOCAL llresult
>llresult = StepOne()
>IF llresult
>  llresult = StepTwo()
>  IF llresult
>    llresult = StepThree()
>  ENDIF
>ENDIF
>* Clean up

Or even shorter

LOCAL llresult
llresult = .T.
llresult = llresult And StepOne()
llresult = llresult And StepTwo()
llresult = llresult And StepThree()

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