>>>Launching a WinApp, no, but you'd have to launch a VDM when running a DOS App using the /N. Take a look at what /N is doing; it launches a Windows app without waiting. There's no need for a DOS session to be fired. REGEDIT in a WinAPP, not a DOS program.
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>>>If you don't specify /N, and no .PIF is found matching a command issued without a file extension, a DOS session is started based on the FOXRUN.PIF, and the command line is run through the DOS command line. This allows you to run a .BAT file where multiple programs are being run; VFP monitors the state of the DOS VDM it watches to recognize when it's finished.
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>>The docs don't explain it as well as you do. You're one of the best sources on the UT. I was just taking the opportunity to pick your brain. :)
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>Thanks! Another truly wonderful source of information on VFP6 is Hacker's Guide to VFP6, available from Hentzenwerkes (they advertise here on UT.) It's a great reference, made even better by the book in a compiled .CHM file that you can keep on-line on your system , so help is literally just a click away. Once you buy the book, you can download the electronic copy, and if there are typos, or stuff gets added (hint to Hentzenwerkes: How about an SP3 update?) it'll be there for you when it's released.

I've got that too.
VDM = virtual dos machine ? I don't see anything about VFP monitoring the state of the VDM. How did you find about that? :)

Dan