>>>>>>I am still trying to figureout what "robust" means:) VB used to be robust, and VB programmers used to coup that as an advantage over VFP.
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>>>>>Robustness is the ability of a system to keep running after it detects an error.
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>>>>Finally - a meaning to the word. Thanks
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>>>In foxpro it's
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>>>ON ERROR *
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>>>In VB it's
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>>>On Error Resume Next
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>>In VFP 8 TRY/CATCH - robustness on steriods?:)
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>Hmmm, you could say that, but I view TRY/CATCH differently from ON ERROR. I'd use the former for exceptions as opposed to general error handling. For example, if you attempt to open a file exclusively but can't because some one else has it in use, that's an exeception, not an error.
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>Why? Simply because the operating system is telling you this. There's nothing wrong with the code or the value passed to it. In contrast, if I attempt to open a file that doesn't exist, that's a coding error, since you should check to make sure that the file exists before you attempt to open it.

It seems that a process that attempts to open a file in exclusive use by another is also a coding (logic?) error. I must admit, however, that I have never been proven right, only wrong:)