Thanks Jim for your reply.
I think it would be best to have the ability to test both conditions (for an internal or external config.fpw). Even if ALLOWEXTERNAL=ON, I may need to know if an internal one is used - if an external one is not used. Short of that, I would be happy with it as you suggest (if ALLOWEXTERNAL=OFF then return the internal config.fpw).

As always with VFP, I can work around it. I'm simply testing the SET("RESOURCE")=OFF which I turn off in config.fpw. This tells me that the config file is being used in this user app. Or I could test another setting that I have in config.fpw.

Thanks again!
Mark

>How do you think it should behave?
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>Perhaps it should return the internal file if there is no ALLOWEXTERNAL = ON in the internal file, as there would be no possiblity of reading an external file.
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>I am not sure this is a bug, but I'll pass it up the line for a look.