>>>I have a program linextrack.exe which works fine when run from inside VFP
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>>>But it wont work if I run it from explorer by cliking on j:\global\linex\linextrack.exe
>>>
>>>What am I missing
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>>Please post the errormessage. Or is it just - nothing? What is the prog doing? Just ?"Hello World" will be visible in the IDE but never from explorer.
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>>In general? Runtimes are properly installed?
>>Event loop running?
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>No error messages
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>Program finishes but does not create data files from incoming data
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>Can I set it up to run from vfp rather than as an exe?

you could create a link to vfp.exe and give program name as parameter, if for your machine