>I tried to imply (but didn't do a very good job of it) that the solution was,
>indeed to write a prg and execute it from within VFP.

Hmm, seemed to me that you made it fairly clear. I think the hang-up was that the batch file would depend on the presence of the PRG, hence my echoing batch file.

>Mike, I am, however, gonna take that "young kids" remark as a compliment. I >don't think my grandkids consider me one.:-)

That remark kind of came on the heels of a conversation I had with our resident intern-turned-college-drop-out-and-full-time-employee: "I've never known life without Intellisense."

"Good God, man, have I ever told you about the time I used to program an IBM 370 mainframe using punch cards?"

I think I aged twenty years after that conversation.