NEVER MIND..........Sorry, but I "hacked" my way through this problem. It has to do with the (my) confusion with changes in VFP having to do with macro substitution. I was putting my COPY command string into a variable. Since in many places I have had to change from the &variable form of macro substitution, to the (variable) form of substitution, I just went ahead and changed my RUN variable to the (variable) form of substitution. As soon as I switched it back to &variable format, it worked just fine.


>In converting an older application from Foxbase to VFP 5.0 (running under WinNT 4.0 workstation), I have run into a problem with issuing a DOS COPY command (to concatenate multiple text files into one file)using the VFP RUN command. If I select a Command (DOS) prompt from NT and do the COPY command manually from a DOS-window, it works fine. It will not work from either the VFP 5.0 command window using RUN, or programatically. I get the "flashing" black background as the RUN command tries to parse the COPY command out to the DOS window, but something is being encountered that is preventing it from being executed. I have checked to make sure that all path names and permissions/rights have been set properly.
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>Can anyone shed any light on this one??
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>Thanks.
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>Jere Wilson