>We have an EXE running on the server that consumes MSMQ messages that
>we use to update out VFP tables. I'd like to run a seperate EXE to make sure
>the first one is running. Can I do that with VFP?


If scripting is available, look at this to see how to do this in VFP without running a separate EXE (it should be fairly straight-forward to translate the VB code to VFP):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394599%28v=vs.85%29.aspx