>I've got a program (in 2.6a) that reads a file, processes the contents, creates a file with the results, and quits.
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>It works fine as is...but I have no need for any screen I/O.
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>Is there anyway to have the program do it's stuff without it first creating a "window" to run in? This program may need to run a hundred times a day and I'd rather it not be opening and closing a useless window all day long...that's gotta slow it down some too...
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>Any ideas?
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>Rick Liebespach


You've gotten some incorrect advice from others. Under 2.x there is no way to totally hide the screen. The FPW SCREEN will appear. You can't totally hide it. However, once it has appeared you can "hide" it with something like MOVE WINDOW SCREEN -1000, -1000.