Pete,
Using a RUN command is probably the best solution. You could setup the VFP as a DDE server and talk to it that way too.
>I would like to use some of VFP's MAPI functionality and don't want to rewrite the entire 2.6 app. I have written a utility in VFP and would like to call it from 2.6. Anybody know of any issues with calling VFP from 2.6 - is using the RUN command the only way.