Bruce,

thanks for the reply. The funny thing is that as soon as I added the "SET COVERAGE TO C:\CLOG.TXT" line at the start of the program and ran the prg, it ran within a second or so, just like the VFP5 environment. Very strange, esp. since the previous effect was repeatable. So, the cause is still a mystery.

Thanks for the tip re. using the coverage profiler.

Steve