I have tried DROP TABLE &table in VFP7 SP1 and it works fine, without showing dialog.

Maybe you can try first to switch SET SAFETY OFF.

>Hi All
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>I have an instance of DROP TABLE that doesn't work as advertised by MS. It puts up the little Dialog Window ..WITHOUT.. the "?" property.
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>Has anyone else experienced this? Other than using "KEYBOARD" to get rid of it, is there a way to force the Dialog NOT to display.
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>Here are the details. I am building a utility that has to drop tables from databases. The table name could be any name, and therefore I am using macro substitution. The macro sub seems to be what's causing the Dialog to appear. Since we want the table to be dropped without user intervention, this behavior is an annoyance.
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>I have tried both of the below flavors with the same result.
>DROP TABLE (lcCopyParentTo)
>DROP TABLE &lcCopyParentTo
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>I dunno, but if you do, I sure would like to hear from you.
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>Thanks
>Don Lowrey