Alan,
Theese rows are never executed because of comment "*" on the first row, in it you have ";" & that mean to VFP to remark all row(s) next that up to the first row that not ends with ";". If you using VFP 6.0 You never remark that, but in VFP 8 You can show that all rows bottom of
will be marked as commented rows
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