Matt,

To add to Ed's reply, You have to have a .prg marked as the main in the project in order to recieve the command line arguments. You can't have a form as the main because VFP actually creates a dummy main.prg behind the scenes to launch the form and it doesn't send the arguments to the form.

>I need the ability to have my application process an input file in batch mode. I would like to be able to issue a command like this:
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>myapp.exe -b c:\mydir\input.txt
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>I am using -b as an example of a switch which would signify to my program to run in batch mode instead of the normal interactive mode. After the -b switch the user could specify drive, dir and file name to process. Anyone have any ideas on how to program this?