>>>>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.
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>>Or the WSH:
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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"
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>J.
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>I think that quote is attribuable to Dragan N.< s >

I was thinking about him, and I believe you were quoting him when I read it. I just wasn't sure. Hilmar also reminded me about the last piece "or none at all".