Hi Chris,

FWIW, when I cut and paste your code and run it from my command window, the window displays with scroll bars in VFP8 sp1. They are, of course, grayed until enough text is entered to warrent scrolling.

Jim

>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