>Bruce,
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>Try RUN /N c:\etc\myapp.exe. Your little startup EXE can now terminate. It will probably reload the VFP run-time, so you may see a performance hit, but disk caching will probably reduce that quite a bit since you just loaded the run-time when your startup app loaded.
Thanks, that works fine, there doesn't appear to be much performance hit...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.