>Ed, > >I recently downloaded your process.vcx class. I have a freeware zip.exe which is a DOS executable that I want to run without the DOS window popping up. > >In VFP6.0 SP3 I can run the program with the line >RUN zip.exe -@ atest.zip < atest.txt > >The systax is zip >In this case the -@ means to take the source from stdin and, using the DOS piping symbol, the stdin is a text file with a list of the files to be zipped.
I've always used this syntax for PkZip:
pkzip whatever @listfile.txt
No need for any redirection, and should run fine without a window.
