Thank you for the suggestion.

I think that I might be able to ge through it with the RUN command. I was trying the RUN command on simple EXEs just to undeerstand how it works.

I have an application First.EXE, which is coded like this:

close databases all
RUN ! /N3 second.exe

release bval
local bval

bval=100

do while bval<= 500
thisform.text1.value=bval
wait window "wait at first project" timeout 10000
bval=bval+1
enddo

Second.exe is an application that adds 100 records to a table and then terminates. But somehow the first.exe is not calling the second.exe.

Do you know if anything is wrong with my RUN command?

Thanks.

Ria