>Could be that too, Fred...although there aren't that many commands that product TALK, and I couldn't think of one that would show .t. or .f.
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>>>>Has anyone heard of this or what I might look at to see what might be causing this?
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>>Or maybe SET TALK is still ON in some code somewhere.

If TALK is ON, then simply setting a variable to a .T. or .F. value can produce that.