Hi Terry,
I'm jumping in without checking all the issues...
I want an error, that's the point. I don't want the user to get a dialog that's pointless, and then my errorhandler's dialog saying "Sorry, you didn't open the right file." It's an error and we're all very sorry. Just give it to me. We want an error to throw an error--not a dialog, then an error.

>>Tell us again how you handle these occurrences in your code such that your does not exhibit this bug (as you call it).
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>on error do errhandler?
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their hillbilly IT teams) any fodder for negative attitudes regarding our development platform. We've been going through that for years.
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>Fix your bugs - do ask VFP to help you hide them!:)