Fabio, when I run your code below (in a prg), I get 0 and 0, not 1088 and 1088. There must be something in your default VFP setup that is using the buffers or whatever.

Alan

>SORRY AGNES,
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>>I miss CLEAR PROGRAM ?
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>

>* VFP use a bad english
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>#define MANYTHINGS ALL
>? SYS(1104) && 1088  i see other values, but it is not simple to repro
>CLEAR MANYTHINGS
>CLEAR PROGRAM
>CLOSE MANYTHINGS
>RELEASE MANYTHINGS
>? SYS(1104) && 1088 it still remains
>

>
>Fabio