Hi Christof,

Well written.

BTW, see you in Prague this year? So I can pay back my debt for the tram ride last year? <bg>

>Hi George,
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>>What's being requested is that a switch (most likely a SET command) be implemented so that the dialog doesn't appear and an error raised.
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>Raising an error would be a good thing... I agree that such errors should have been avoided in the first place.
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>However, when you run a VFP application as a service (or part of it) or as a non-interactive application, the app doesn't have access to a Windows Station (desktop) to display the dialog. Hence, if for some reason a table is not available, the application hangs and your only options are killing the app from the Task Manager potentially corrupting data files.
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>--
>Christof