I know that the full blown version of what I want to do is called an audit trail. What I would like is a simple method for tracking program flow in a small section of the code to see if code is being executed or not (in this case if tables are update or if a roll back occurs). I quess the closes thing I can think of is a code profiler which if I understand VFP correctly is not available at run time. That is why I wanted to create a text file for a short time. Textmerge way be the way to go.