>I compiled your code into a .exe (VFP6/SP4), and:
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>1. I ran the .exe from CMD and it still opened up a new CMD window (it didn't reuse the current one). Why didn't the original CMD session get used by the .exe?
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Because the CLI, when launching a WinApp, isn't explicitly connecting a console to the WinApp; the only way a WinApp inherits a console is to have it passed by the parent in the CreateProcess() invocation. It will cause a console to pass for piping purposes

>2. There seemed to be a significant delay between each "hello world" output. I didn't see SLEEP declared anywhere, is VFP just slow at this kind of thing?
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Did you leave in the 3 carefully-commented INKEY(10) statements? They produced the waits - once at console creation, once after the first WriteConsole, and once after the second WriteConsole. It doesn't stay up very long without them.

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>Oh, and .3.: THANKS! This is awesome and something I didn't realize you could really do with VFP!
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Don't applaud - just throw money... :-)