>>Is there a simple way to fire up a small windows exe prog from inside my Fox app - as in the MSDOS ! and RUN commands. I know how to automate e.g. Word but can't seem to start another small exe. Createprocess?? Excuse ignorance ... and thanks.
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>Probably other members of the UT will jump in and show how to use the Windows API. However, the simplest method is:
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>* Example: run calculator
>run /n calc.exe
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>HTH, Hilmar.

Or the WSH:

oWS = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
oWS.Run("C:\my path\someapp.exe",1)

As somebody else said here (don't remember), "in Fox there are at least three ways of doing the same thing"