Bill,

It's a bug in VFP8. It doesn't overwrite all error messages. For example,

a   &&Unrecognized command verb.
? vartype( myNonExistantVar )
? message()      && Still Unrecognized command verb.

>

>? message()                            &prints <whatever>
>? vartype( myNonExistantVar )          &prints 'U'
>? message()                            &prints 'Property MYNONEXISTANTVAR is not found'
>

>
>TIA