I've seen people ask on forums how to run an application from within FoxPro and then sit there and do NOTHING until it's finished. I wrote a simple DLL function that will do that. Simply put Tools.dll in your Windows/System (WinNT/System32) directory. Improved to include a return value, allows commandline and allows you to specify an initial state for the window (minimized, maximized, invisible) See readme.txt inside the zip.