>>Thanks Chris. My comments in-line...
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>>>A very good start. I might suggest breaking it down to smaller chunks, say ~50 entries so people can read and respond quickly.
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>>But my REAL objective (I guess I wasn't clear enough) is to use only these as representative of ALL. I'm hopeful there's enough variety here to convey that EVERY error message is to display ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION POSSIBLE.
>>Do you think you'd 'get the drift' from this limited selection?
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>Yes, even though I misunderstood your original goal in posting - I thought you were going to present an exhaustive list of the error messages and invite comment on them.
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>If we want general statements:
>Any 'field' mention should have tablename(alias) and fieldname. Current value is also useful.
>Any 'Property' mention should have the object name.propertyname and current value.
>Any 'File' mention should list the filename.
>Any 'Expression' should list the full expression, or as much as is feasible. (I think we can exclude "String too long to fit." <g>)

Yes, I will add things along these lines. In my 'base' submission draft I have also added the need for the full path whenever a (discreet) file or table is involved. That can help if the file is being found in some unexpected place along the path.

SNIP
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>I also have to agree with Vlad's headline comments. I had to refit an existing error handler in Fox Dos 2.5 to capture memory to give me a better idea about a few inconsistent errors that appeared when we moved to Terminal Server. I added something similar to the VFP replacement-in-progress for that program to help me chase through some of OOPs loopholes.

I'm working on that now. I was going to e-mail Vlad with revised copy, but now I think I'll start a second thread here with the revised text.

thanks again.
By the way, I would have undertaken an exhaustive list (all of them) but the mechanics of the VFP8 Help make that too tedious. Every time I accessed the detail behind a message, the 'back' resulted in the error numbered list going back TO THE TOP. Even with a scroll wheel, it's just too much.

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>Chris.