>>>>I have a program linextrack.exe which works fine when run from inside VFP
>>>>
>>>>But it wont work if I run it from explorer by cliking on j:\global\linex\linextrack.exe
>>>>
>>>>What am I missing
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>In general? Runtimes are properly installed?
>>>Event loop running?
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>>No error messages
>>
>>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?
>
>Define: incomming data
>You have some interface, enter data and the data will not be stored to disk? What data format is this? text / tables ... What comand do you use to store? A code snippet, a symbolic, anything.
>The IDE presets stuff (DISPLAY STATUS) aus you do in Tools / Options. A exe without IDE has other defaults (or it hase the VFP defaults while your IDE might have other values).
>
>Only my EUR 0.02.
>
>
>You can run inside VFP as Thomas pointed out. But only on a machine with VFP installed. Not a good idea on customers place at all.

Have solved it - I needed to set exact on and to increase the memowidth

Thanks all for your help

Colin