Mark wrote:
> LONG IF endBar OR endFlag
>    '...do stuff
>  XELSE   '...here we would expect both of them to be zero.
>   LONG IF gMarket.mBegin(0)=_flatMarket   '...problem condition
>    PRINT endBar,endFlag
>    '...both of these print as non-zero positive values!
>   END IF
>  END IF

That really is weird.  I was not able to reproduce the problem, using
various values for endBar & endFlag (even changing the infamous
"optimize as integer" preference did not make any difference).  Can you
provide some actual values of endBar & endFlag which produce your funny
result?

- Rick.