>I need someone to help me with this. Several people have tried with different approches but none have worked so far.
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>I have a folder that is populated with .ps files from another app that many users are printing from. My fist step with my watch app is to create a new folder with the base name of each set of files with the same base name then create a STRTOFILE file and put into the new directory also. This I have done with no problem. Note this is done to batch for processing.
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>The next step is to Run /N2 acrodist.exe &sdewse2(strtofile). This is where my problem lies. I need this to run unattended so I can't phyisically exit Distiller with each batch finishing. So I need a way to halt the execution of the VFP code until the batch is finished. Then run the next one.
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>I have tried to use FOPEN() and FClose() but then I get an error that Distiller can't open the file randomly.
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>I need a way to tell that distiller is executing a job and let me know when it is finished.

You can do exactly that using my API_APPRUN class, available for download from the Files section here on UT. It can either run the process synchronously, not returning control to VFP until the process terminates, or asynchronously, letting you poll the termination status at intervals (or on demand) passing control back to VFP immediately (you can do this to let the VFP app continue to run, and poll the status of the launched process whenever you have a VFP process that is dependant on the termination occuring, and blocking or delaying the dependant process.)