To followup with Sergey's suggestion, the Session class in VFP 7 was enhanced to automatically hide the native PEMs unless you explicitly make them visible.

>Hi
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>How do I create a 'Clean' class? By that I mean a class that doesn't inherit anything from other base classes. For example when I
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DEFINE CLASS test as Custom

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>I end up with a whole lot of other variable that I don't want. What I would like is something similar to the named object that is created by the SCATTER command.
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>I haven't been able to figure out (form the Help) how to define a structure that is not a class, yet equally I cannot create a class without any overhead either.
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>Could some kind person enlighten me.
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>Ta very muchly
>regards
>Geoff Scott