>>That's about your only option. And even this won't work
>>if there are VFP specific field types like DATETIME or CURRENCY.
>>You may lose some information in those cases.
>
>Yes, actually I know that and it could be solved with some new fields for DATETIME types (separating them to some myDate and myTime fields); it could be also filtered with SQL statements just before copy-ing to FoxPro 2 table.
>
>So, it seems that's the only way and I hope it'll work. Perhaps it would be the problem in DOS: executing the
>...
>RUN /0 MyVfpApp.exe
>...
>should work, but the DOS application runs in a full-screen mode, not in a Window and it could be annoying if running a VFP program would switch the full-window mode to a small window even it won't display anything and should run completely hidden and silent.

Then build in a CONFIG.FPW file with SCREEN=OFF in it for your VFP .EXE. That way you won't have to see anything at all when it runs.