>I need to know if it is possible to run a text/character based program within the CMD.exe shell. Does anybody know if this is possible? If so...how?
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>Jeremy R. Sanderlin
>jsander2@purdue.edu

Hi Jeremy:

Saw that no one has helped you yet... so here I am. I presume you are running NT, as that is where CMD.Exe is the shell (not Win9x). The answer is you can run just about any kind of executable from the CMD prompt (ie: 'dos' shell) -- 16 & 32-bit .COM, DOS and Windows .EXE and .BAT files. Within VFP, just use the RUN command (I usually use RUN/0 xxxx) to obtain maximum free memory for the executing program. Of course, anything you run from a CMD shell will have the screen flash, etc. and you might need to tweak the session's Autoexec.Nt for it (see the property tabs on the command prompt or PIF). Seems to me you could just try it faster than posting a question here, but in any event...

HTH

Rob