This is an original quote of mine. I spent about 30 years in several phases of software: coding, designing, supporting, and using. I have come to this conclusion. Signed, Ernie Hansen

I am new to this blog. What do you mean by cite it.

Been there, Done that! Lay out available options and take action. 1. Stay and keep quiet. (could be job security) 2. Stick around until something better comes along. 3. Make your own list of options. I would be willing to bet the programmers that wrote the code have been promoted into management and are running the project. In that case you are in a political situation. Hansen's Theorem 1 : If a situation is not logical, it is political

Hey Charley, what SSD did you use?

Your environment may be different when you run the debugger verses just launching the exe file. Check "PATH" when executing both. Also, as I use to do, kill the program with print statements. You can do a "binary search" with print statements. One at the beginning, one in the middle and one at the end of the program. See which one prints and move them around accordingly. THE OLE HACK ;P