>So far it has not been coded as a prg, still in the command line testing phase.
>I have tried using the real exe name, the full path, fully quoted, the exe name wrapped with CHR(32), changing into the directory where the two exe's live, all to no avail.
>i.e. lcmd = 'RUN ' + CHR(32) + fullname + CHR(32)
>&lcmd
>No go, so just use the exe name and try
>CHDIR 'g:\phone bills\temp'
>RUN &fname
>no go
>even from the command line, typing in RUN 068642a6.exe (the actual exe name), with or without the full path (even after SET DEFAULT TO 'g:\phone bills\temp' ) does not work.
Lorne,
Use RUN
/N &lcfile where lcfile is the fully qualified file name. Just tried this with a 01234567.exe in a folder named c:\foo foo\New folder and it worked fine. Of course, it was a windows program.
George
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