Ria,
It's either RUN or ! , not both. If the first process doesn't need to wait for that second process to finish, then you should be fine...
>Thank you for the suggestion.
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>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.
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>I have an application First.EXE, which is coded like this:
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>close databases all
>RUN ! /N3 second.exe
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>release bval
>local bval
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>bval=100
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>do while bval<= 500
> thisform.text1.value=bval
> wait window "wait at first project" timeout 10000
> bval=bval+1
>enddo
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>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.
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>Do you know if anything is wrong with my RUN command?
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>Thanks.
>
>Ria