Consider storing the Vars and settings to a mem file or a memo field in a table prior to the shell.





>That's what I thought, but even doing that doesn't seem to help. The .exe only gets 'bound' if I actually instantiate an object of a class in the classlib. So even though the object is released properly and I go
>set classlib to
>the exe is 'held on to'
>Eric is suggesting running the second exe using RUN but there are variables and setting etc in the Shell.exe which the called exe needs to access.