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>>Ideally, C++ would inform VFP when the user selects a file and the c++ app has processed it. Looping until the C++ window is gone then checking
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>a q.-
>why doesn't the C++ code use VFP API (or VFP5.0 as an automation server) to work with the tables directly (ie why are u using .txt files)

these .txt files are being used to drive a CNC process for some machinery, the communication between c++ & VFP is needed to only update a flag is a VFP table. I'll look into the VFP APIs.

Thanks Arnon