Plinio,

I found out that it was something else.
I had screen = oFF in my config.fpw file
(see my other related posts on this today - under troubleshooting

Thanks

>First you must generate your menu (see "menu" on visual foxpro Menu) if it's not part of a project. And you have to replace "Do tryit.mpx" for ""Do tryit.mpr""
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>>I know this must be really simple, but I'm not getting it. I have the simplest program:
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>>do tryit.mpx
>>read events
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>>when I compile tryit.exe and run it from within vfp (7)
>>it waits on the read events
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>>when I run it from the command line it doesn't wait.
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>>I don't no why it bypasses my read events when run from the command line
>>The menu is very simple it just has a file/exit pad with command of 'clear events'
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>>I've seen many posts on here where people say that their program exits - when they don't have a read events, but I have one, and it still exits.
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>>Thanks