>>I need a VFP command which will dump the results of a search command into a file. My program needs to look for any file meeting the DOS criteria XFER*.DBF. These files could be in any subdirectory. THE DOS command to do it would be:
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>>DIR XFER*.DBF >FILELIST.TXT /S
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>>This isn't good in VFP; it's slow, and it has to use a run-time DOS window. However, I'll use it if necessary. I would like to know, though, how to squelch that run-time DOS window. I see in the manuals how to resize it, but I'd like to eliminate it completely.
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>JR
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>Joy:
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>You are always going to get at least a flash of the window on the screen. I have looked high and low for a way to mask this, but have had no luck. If you find a way to do it, I would like to know solution also.
> ED


While better solutions exist (i.e. using ADIR) to this problem, you can get rid of the DOS flash by calling a pif file that calls a batch file. The pif file can be set to run in background.