>I am sure I am doing something dumb, but I have a small app that runs fine as an app in foxpro, but when I build it into an EXE and run it it launches and comes up to the first form and then closes before you can do anything.
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>am I missing something here?

You need to create a wait state when you have an EXE. Create a main program and set it as "main" in the project manager. After doing all of your setup code and putting up a menu and then calling your first form, put in the statement

READ EVENTS

To exit the program you need to issue CLEAR EVENTS

Let me know if you need an example.