>>>>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).
>>>
>>>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..
>>
>>If it's multi-line memo then you can go through the loop:
>>
>>for n=1 to memlines(memofield)
>> cCommand=mline(memofield,n)
>> &cCommand.
>>endfor
>>
>
>Good point Ed... Hadn't thought of that..

Ed,

Would loop processing work with that setup? Something like:
DO WHILE ...
.
.
ENDDO

I'm curious rather than accusatory. This would be great if it works, but I've always been under the impression that you're limited to 1 line commands with macro expansion.