> I would like to run a second vfp5.0 exe from my main .exe -- i.e., RUN /N3 > app2.exe. > > I would like to think that, since the first .exe loaded the runtime > library, it would share the library with the second .exe. That is, does > VFP load a runtime library for EACH .exe, or can 1 runtime library run > mutiple .exe s? > > My concern is memory. I dont want to run the second .exe if it will eat up > another 3.5 MB for the runtime library. In emperical tests, FoxPro seems to share some of the memory, but not all of it. In this table, I am showing the number of instances of the 5.0a IDE running, along with the size of the Windows swap file: 0 30.9 1 32.5 2 35.1 3 36.1 4 38.3 This would indicate that each instance of VFP takes up an additional 2.5Mb, not the full 5Mb that I was expecting. I know that 3.x and before did not share any memory, so this seems to be quite an improvement. /Paul