>First, you'd need to specify the command line as:
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>"C:\Program Files\AFP3\afp3.exe" -C

I thought I had tried this last night but obviously I had not. Windows accepts this now.

>The easiest way to make sure that no CONFIG.FPW gets used is to embed a CONFIG.FPW file right in the .EXE; it'll get used automatically that way. I would consider putting in a minimal one at least, with RESOURCE=OFF if you don't use the FOXUSER file, to avoid leaving Fox droppings whereever the app happens to get started, with or without a shortcut...

Its not my .EXE so I cannot embed a config.fpw in the build -- this exe is inadvertantly processing a file name in my devenv that it shouldn't. I was trying to stop the use of the config.fpw file to ascertain how it was getting to some of my other code.

Thanks for the advice Ed.

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