>I know its a bad idea.
True. That said <g>:
for your situation you could refox, compile under different versions of vfp and compare the results.
If no difference exists, who cares ?
I've used a similar approach when the deployed versions were build
from a different code base than the one kept under source safe.
REALLY fun debugging incidents weeks later.

>EXE is COMPILED in development environment under vfp6 sp5.
>Program has a reference to version()
This is as it should be: imagine a program targeted for deployment under 6 and 8.
If version() in the 6-runtime would return the compile time version "8",
you might end up trying to use bindevent() in 6 <bg>.

my 0.02 EUR

thomas