>>>I may be going about this all wrong...
>>>
>>>I have recently purchased SDT and I wanted to put in my main prg code that if a parameter is passed that I run the needupdate and update methods.
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>>>I put a lparameter statement in my main program and from my development environment I can issue "do lsmain with "U"" and everything works great...Is there a way to do this from my clients site that has an executable. For example, LS.EXE -U?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Paul
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>>Yes, if you run "Ls.Exe U" then "U" will go to LParameter.
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>Just to expand on your answer, parameters that start with - or / will be interpreted by Fox as it's own parameter, rather than a parameter to the application.

And another expansion- parameter passed in this fashion are ALWAYS received as character.