>>>Not EXEs for sure ...
>
>Hey, don't make fun of me :))

I wasn't making fun of you. (I can't speak for George, though. <gd&rfgt>)

>I had EXEs.

I'm sure you did, but I'm just saying they weren't built with dBASE III.

>I can't prove it to you nor myself right now, but I've been renaming .XXX to .EXE forever. The .FOX I can't even recall (but I believe it), though the FOXPRUN I have at heart. Gee, now what ?
>Anyway, rename a .APP or .FXP to .EXE and it just works. And much faster !!

I hadn't thought about doing this, but I was aware you could rename some files, like HTM or TXT to XLS, and Excel will open them, so it doesn't surprise me. But regardless of the file extension, an APP or FXP is still really an APP or FXP and will act like one. IOW, I don't think you can launch either without something else calling them.

>One last thing : I never (up till today) used REAL EXEs. Can't work at x1,000 PRG's.
>

Huh? What does the number of PRGs have to do with whether or not you create an EXE?