Dave,

We tried Execscript() and you're right, it's extremely fast. Thanks again,

-Irv.

>>David,
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>>Thanks for the response.
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>>This command is being incorporated into a much larger system for the purposes of speed; many slightly different versions of the code will be submitted in succession, represented by a long string of text that is modified each time. Since it's true that all it does is store to a temp file and run it, do you think this is any faster then just FILETOSTR() followed by 'DO SomeCode.prg' ? I was hoping it could all be done in memory...
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>>Irv.
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>The Exescript is MUCH MUCH faster than
>StrtoFile(mycode)
>Compile (mycode)
>do (mycode)
>
>It's the compile that's slow, at least on our systems. The Exescript doesn't seem to have the COMPILE delay. You can't run a .prg at runtime, you need to COMPILE first.
>
>So I'd be using Exescript() wherever you can.