George,
I didn't know if he had WSH installed on all machines. That is typically what I do, but what is the call to make the VFP wait for the called program to finish? Here is a typical function I would use, what do you change to make it wait?

=lNetSend( GETFILE( ) )

FUNCTION lNetSend
  PARAMETERS tcOpenMe

  oShell = CREATEOBJECT( 'WScript.Shell' )
  oShell.Run( tcOpenMe )
  oShell = .NULL.
  RELEASE oShell

ENDFUNC