Thanks, Jon ... I tried you suggestion about ? but it does nothing (presumably it displays on the VFP screen, which I've hidden).
zahid

>Hi Zahid,
>>I've created a utility program which is essentially a workstation configuration tool. Now I'd like to be able to run it from the command line or from a batch file.
>
>Im not sure, but if you run it from a batch file, using the ?|?? might echo it to the dos console...might being the key word?
>
>>
>>The problem is, the only way I know how to provide results to users is with Windows constructs such as MESSAGEBOX(). How can I write these out to the console so that users won't have to clear the messageboxes?
>
>Then there's always the ever faithful wait window:
>WAIT 'We just did this!' WINDOW NOWAIT
>or
>WAIT 'Now we did this!' WINDOW TIMEOUT 1
>
>HTH,
>
>Jon