Thank you, Lutz. I will try your suggestions.
>VFP is sometimes ugly finding files
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>Any change with
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>cd d:\Customer1
>do d:\Customer1\appl.exe
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>Try to play with SET PATH to.
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>check the return of
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>cd d:\Customer1
>?FULLPATH('appl.exe')
>?FILE('d:\Customer1\appl.exe')
>?sys(2000,'d:\Customer1\appl.exe')
>?sys(2000,'appl.exe')
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>Lutz
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>
>>Hi,
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>>My "standard" development environment is some folder d:\MyHome\ This is where if I execute the application from IDE it starts.
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>>Now I want to start the Appl.exe from a different folder (e.g. d:\Customer1). So, I copied the application file Appl.exe to this folder. Then I open VFP 9 IDE, change folder to d:\customer1 And then run command
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>>cd d:\Customer1
>>do appl.exe
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>>But it still starts from the home directory (d:\MyHome).
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>>But for testing, I want the .EXE to start from the d:\customer1 folder so that I can see what the customer sees.
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>>What am I missing?
>>
>>TIA
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