>Does anyone know of a fool-proof wasy to detect the completion of a run command in VFP.
>Example:
>I'm using a run command to (command-line) print a PDF to postscript. I've checked for the existence of the ps file to detect completion but the file can be seen before it's actually completely created. A guy here can do it in VB with API calls, but I'm not sure how (or if) that can be converted to VFP.

Attempt to get an exclusive file lock (read/write) with fopen('pdf file',2). If you can, it has finished printing and nothing else has it open.

HTH.