Michael,

>Hmm..that was too easy. Why didn't I think of that? Sometimes I wonder if I'm not going through premature senility.

That method will work, but only if you are running within VFP - a distributed executable doesn't have access to the compiler so cannot compile and run a prg file.

If you want to re-distibute you could look for something called CodeBlock (which may be in the library here).