>Michael,
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>>Hmm..that was too easy. Why didn't I think of that? Sometimes I wonder if I'm not going through premature senility.
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>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.
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>If you want to re-distibute you could look for something called CodeBlock (which may be in the library here).

If the code in his memo filed is a one liner, he could get the contents into a memvar and use either &Memvar or EVAL() to execute the one line of code..