Hi, John
I follow your instruction,

CD c:\testapp
do setx
do startmm

when I do setx, I got the following error message

Program error: Variable 'METADATA' is not found

The program is setup.prg

The code is here

 *-----------------------------------------------
  *-- Check to see if the application is being run 
  *-- in debug mode ... if it is build/rebuild the 
  *-- application's metadata.
  *-----------------------------------------------  
  lcMetaTableName = IIF(EMPTY(tcEXE), METADATA, FORCEEXT(JUSTFNAME(tcEXE),"DBF"))
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Please advise.
Derek