>I need to execute a couple of exe's from within VFP. I get the exe names with
>numfiles = ADIR(prgarray, "G:\phone bill\temp\*.exe")
>fullname = "G:\phone bill\temp" + prgarray(1,1)
>RUN &fullname
>
>I have tried this with and without the &. As the two self extracting exe's have a different name evey month, there is no way to hard code them in
>
>fullname holds the correct name, it SHOULD work, but won't.
>What am I doing wrong?
Your problem (if the name is formatted correctly) is you have a long file name with an embedded space. This will not work as a macro expansion without quotes. Try this:
RUN "&fullname"