I can, and I do. The short program was for illustrative purpuses only.
What I do use the RUN commmand for is for some other things which are either difficult or impossible in VFP, commands like:
XCOPY
DELTREE
Compression utility, with parameters
Regards, Hilmar.
>Hilmar,
>Couldn't you use VFP's native DELETE FILE?
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