>I need to call an exe from within VFP program and send the exe an argument and the receives a value back and depeding on the value I want to continue execution of the program.
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>I am currently doing this
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> lcApp = ALLTRIM(fold_loc) + ALLTRIM(exe_name)
> lcParam = ALLTRIM(exe_param)
> shellExecute (0,"", lcApp, lcParam,"",1)
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>However I cant receive the argument returned from the called application. Also shellexecute will not wait until the value is returned.
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>Is this possible in VFP?

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