>>I have an event monitor application that executes numerous vfp applications that are built as external .exe’s. When the event monitor runs one of the external applications it retains the program in memory. If the external app is modified I must shut down the event monitor and restart it for the changes to be seen. Is there a way to force the event monitor to load the external application each time it is run?
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>>Actually I would not have expected this behavior but I suspect this is a feature and not a bug :)
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>If programmed and called properly, the external application should not stay in the memore after it finishes. How the event monitor runs external applications?

External program executed using:
Do someexternalprogram.exe

The actual code reads the command line from a table and executes the line using macro substitution.