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FIX: Type() Crashes Visual FoxPro When Used with Save Screen

Article ID: 160918

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2002

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q160918

SYMPTOMS

Issuing the following commands from within a program or Command Window will cause Visual FoxPro to terminate:

   DISPLAY MEMORY
   SAVE SCREEN TO mscreen
   ? TYPE('mscreen')

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in Visual FoxPro version 6.0

MORE INFORMATION

If the variable that is being evaluated by TYPE() is of type "S," Visual FoxPro will terminate. Type "S" is a variable containing the output of the Save Screen command.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvfp600fix kbprb KB160918