Hi Charles,

What you posted is from VFP7 help. Here's VFP8 version

 Visual FoxPro Language Reference   

SET NOTIFY Command
See Also
SET MESSAGE | SET( ) Function | WAIT | UIEnable Event
Enables or disables the display of certain system messages. The following are
examples of system messages affected by SET NOTIFY: 

"Expression is valid" in the Expression Builder dialog box 
"Do Canceled," which appears when program execution is canceled 
SET NOTIFY [CURSOR] ON | OFF
Parameters
CURSOR 
Specifies whether data-related messages should appear in the status bar. 
ON 
Enables the display of certain system messages. (Default) 
OFF 
Disables the display of certain system messages. 
Remarks
System messages display in the graphical, not character-based, status bar at the bottom of
the main Visual FoxPro window.

When SET NOTIFY CURSOR is set to OFF, Visual FoxPro suppresses all data-related messages
from displaying in the status bar. These messages include alias, data source, record
pointer, record count and exclusive/record unlocked status.

The setting of SET NOTIFY CURSOR does not affect SET NOTIFY.

You can use the SET("NOTIFY",1) function to return the current value of SET NOTIFY CURSOR.

See Also
SET MESSAGE | SET( ) Function | WAIT | UIEnable Event

>In VFP 8.0 help I only find SET NOTIFY ON/OFF
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