>>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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>How about
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>numfiles = ADIR(xfers,'XFER*.DBF',D) ** This will put them into an array. The 'D' tells it to look in subdirectories
>sele xferfls ** .dbf with structure matching ADIR array
>append from array xfers
>copy to filelist.txt

Thanks, Dorris! I got several answers, but yours was the most direct. I'll try it and let you know.

JR