FIX: Type() Crashes Visual FoxPro When Used with Save Screen (160918)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0

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.

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	10/16/2002
Keywords:	kbBug kbprb kbvfp600fix KB160918