When you 'execute' lines from the command window, VFP in reality makes a temporary .prg which then is compiled, run and deleted. So your variables will be local the temporary program, and therefor not available anymore afterwards.

>I want to be able to highlite multiple lines of code in the command window and reexecute them at one time, in sequence. I changed jobs recently and I thought I was able to do this in VFP-7 but it does not work on my new VFP-8 setup. I can't find any refs to it in the documentation. When I highlite the following commands that were previously executed one at a time and press the [Enter] key it does not seem to do anything. The memvars do not exist if I try to show them:
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>I copied these lines from earlier in the command window and pasted them at the bottom of the command window. While they are still highlited I pressed the [Enter] key to execute them.
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> m.lcStatute1 = ''
> m.lcStatute2 = ''
> m.lcStatute3 = ''
> m.lcStatute4 = ''
> m.lnSub = 1
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>Then I entered the following command:
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> ?m.lnSub
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>and to my surprise I get an error that says the memvar does not exist! Is there some setup option that will allow me to do this or was I just dreaming???
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>Jim White