>Would it be possible to have an out-of-process VFP COM server (an EXE) do the report?... it could be instantiated by the VFP MTDLL, no?
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>One thing I've noticed is that the RUN command does not work within an MTDLL. But somebody told me that the MTDLL can instantiate an out-of-process VFP COM server with a method in it that performs the RUN command (let's say there's some not-necessarily-VFP 3rd party app that you want to run, etc.)
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>Are these suppositions correct?

You can instantiate and use VFP COM EXE from within VFP COM DLL. It's accepted way to run VFP reports in the version before VFP9. I don't see why RUN command cannot be used the same way.