>>>> Is there any difference in compilation of the EXE and APP file? Am I doing anything wrong?
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>>Yes. If you run an APP from the command window you inherit everyhing in your development environment. Also remember, if you run an APP a second time from the command window, you most likely inherit the environment leftovers from the first run.
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>>Here are things that, in my experience, are likely to be different in your APP environment as it is in your EXE environment.
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>>1. VFPStart.PRG
>>3. SET PATH
>>4. Local-directory files and files along SET PATH not linked into the APP that are not in the EXE's directory or along the EXE's SET PATH.
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>What happened to 2?

It went down the wrong path.

Steve Despres