>I am told I can shell to DOS in Windows 7 using VFP 9, but I CANNOT shell to DOS in Windows 7 using VFP 5 legacy code.
>Does anyone know of a solution to this dilemma?
>I really want to keep my legacy code because bringing it into VFP 9 will mean a lot of time debugging issues. Trust me there are issues in my code for VFP 9.
>There must be some trick to get VFP 5 to shell to DOS in Windows 7.

Can you give an example of the type of "shelling to DOS" code that isn't working under Windows 7?

I do recall the trouble of having to rewrite quite a bit of my own code when transitioning from FPD to FPW, then from FPW to VFP -- of course it wasn't too surprising considering that it was code involved communication with external hardware (connected via serial port or network)... In FPD I had used BIN files that made calls to BIOS, then in FPW I'd hooked into Win16 API (using the RegFN() and CallFN() in Foxtools), and then in VFP hooked into the Win32 API (using DELARE DLL -- I didn't use ActiveX components as the thought hadn't occurred to me at the time).