>>Michelle,
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>>DDE stands for Dynamic Data Exchange. It's generally considered out of date. It's largely been replaced by ActiveX automation.
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>>FoxPro supports DDE (since FP 2.5 for Windows). Look in help for the commands that start with the letters DDE.
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>Duh? I checked my VFP book and didn't check help.
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>Anyway, this looks _way_ to complicated for what we need to do. I just need to be able to run his program from my program. Seems like the "run" command would be much easier.
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>Thanks,
Michelle,
If RUN will work for you, by all means do it. Not only is DDE rather complex, it's also pretty buggy.