>First, on the API approach, I believe that there's a file here (in the Win32 and Other APIs section) that'll do this. I believe it's by Hank Fay.
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>Second, on the Windows Script Host (WSH), it's capable of quite a number of things that you either can't do (create a short cut link) or can't do easily (like delete an entire directory tree with files in it) from VFP. There are a lot of sources. Ed Rauh and I listed a good number in our overview article that'll be in the September issue of the VFUG (
www.vfug.org) newsletter. Currently, it's (the newsletter) in progress, but the entire article is posted on the VFUG site.
I'll check this stuff out. Thanks.
...and by the way - I checked out your list...and I'll have you know that in my distant past I sired many a line of undocumented assembly code that would bring the mightiest Klingon programmer to his knees! ..... KAPLAGH!
"The Iron Fish: The water is cold...but the fish don't mind"
...Jay Jenks, boyhood chum