Works great on my PC with 98 on it. But scripting host is not on other PCs here. This is going to be used in a commercial financial package so has to run on anything.

Thanks anyway,

>Nigel,
>
>

* create an instance of the WSH Shell object
>local loShell
>loShell = createobject('wscript.shell')
>* 0 = minimised window for the command, .t. = wait for a return value
>lnResult = loShell.Run(m.lcCommandLine, 0, .t.)
>

>
>Cheers,
>
>Andrew
>

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>>I need to call an old 16bit exe file so I'm using ShellExecute. The only problem is that I also need to wait for completion of this third-party executable before my VFP app can continue processing.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>TIA,