Thanks a lot Anatoliy, it works with Windows Scripting.
Tamas

>I would suggest using WaitForSingleObject API call instead of calling GetExitCodeProcess within DO WHILE cycle. This way it works -- have just tested -- in both VFP8 and VFP9.
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>#DEFINE INFINITE  0xFFFFFFFF
>= WaitForSingleObject(hProcess, INFINITE)
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>Insert this line immediately after obtaining process and thread handles replacing the DO WHILE part.
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>Also you may consider using Windows Scripting objects.
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>#DEFINE EXEC_NOWAIT 0
>#DEFINE EXEC_AND_WAIT 1
>oShell = CreateObject('WScript.Shell')
>oShell.Run("notepad c:\temp\myfile.txt", 1, EXEC_AND_WAIT)
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