>>Hi All,
>>I saw a command in Foxbase+ today that gave me pause:
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RUN COPY <directory>\<table>

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>>As I can't find a prg named 'copy', I have to assume this is a command by itself. Does anyone who used Foxbase+ remember a command like this?
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>The default behavior under FoxBASE+ was to spawn a new instance of COMMAND.COM inside the conventional memory space of the executing instance of FoxBASE+ - what you see there is nothing more than the DOS COPY command. You can get roughly equivalent behavior by saying:
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RUN COMMAND /C COPY <blah blah woof woof>

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>under FoxPro/FPW/VFP, except that the spawned CLI does not exist inside the process space of the DOS app, but instead, either runs in the common Windows address space under Win16/Win32s, or in a separate VDM with its own adddress space under a true Win32 environment.

Ed,
Thanks, I appreciate your throughness in your explanation. I haven't had to use that command very often. In fact, I can't remember the last time.