Chris,
When you say the scroll bars are missing I assume you mean the scroll bars from the MODI FILE command. The scroll bars are not really missing, but the parent window (W1) is too small to display the whole text editor window.
Try to adjust the SIZE in your DEFINE WINDOW statement or I am sure there is a place in the options where you can change the default text editor window size (that is created when you issue MODI FILE), I don't have VFP on this computer otherwise I would try to find that preference setting.

Hope this helps,
Einar



>The following two lines of code, picked up from FoxDos days, produced a window with horizontal and vertical scroll bars in VFP 7.
>
> DEFINE WINDOW W1 AT 2,2 SIZE 40,95 TITLE "Press 'ESC' when finished" SYSTEM
> MODIFY FILE c:\whatever.txt WINDOW W1
>
>Now, running the same lines of code in VFP 8, all of the scroll bars are missing. I am guessing that it is something simple I am missing and any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Chris