>Gaylen,
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>Just to add to what Andrew told you (and he's quite correct, BTW), the only difference between an APP file and an EXE is that the APP does not have the necessary header information required for Windows to load and run the file. Outside of that, there's no difference. Tell that to your IS Manager.

To go just a little further -

An APP file cannot be run "by itself." It needs to be called from the VFP development environment, or, it can be called by another EXE as Gaylen is doing.