I was afraid of that. Thanks for your Help. I'm going to go about it that way.

Thanks
Jim


>I have to side with Ed on this one. You're going to have to right to a file. I wouldn't use DBF's either because of the changes to the format.
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>I'd try saving a memory variable to a .MEM file and see if FP/DOS can read that. Otherwise I'd go to a text file.
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> -cjh
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>>I have a FoxPro dos 2.6 program which run's a vfp 6.0 executable to update vfp 6.0 tables. I pass paramters to this executable so it knows what to do. I would like to return a failure to the foxpro 2.6 program if this routine did not finsh correctly. I am trying to avoid using another database. Any idea's would be helpful.
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>>Thank you,
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>>Jim Bridge
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>>Allemann and Assocates.