>>Thanks, that was exactly what I wanted. I don't know why I couldn't find it in the Foxpro help.
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>It isn't in VFP help because it's Win Api function, not VFP. See Win Api #12636 for more details about that function.
Actually, the FFC contains a wrapper class for ShellExecute() in the FFC classlib _environ.vcx, so it is part of the VFP development environment.