Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro
An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works. Tells you the inside scoop on every command, function, property, event and method of Visual FoxPro.
_StartUp
This system variable lets you specify a program to run when FoxPro starts up. You specify it in the CONFIG.FPW file.
Usage
_STARTUP = cProgram
This variable was added in FoxPro 2.6 to enable the Catalog Manager to be up and running when FoxPro opened. The specified program is run before a command specified by COMMAND=.
Changes to _STARTUP once FoxPro is running don’t have any automatic effects. But because this is a system variable that can’t be cleared, it’s another hook you can grab to use for your own purposes. See _ASSIST for ideas about how to use these hooks.
Example
* The next line would appear in CONFIG.FPW.
_STARTUP = MyStart.PRG