>George,
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>I'm not crystal clear on the content of your reply on this thread. Are you saying that Windows Script host is the app that needs to load file returned from GETFILE(), or that this application will get the File Associattion? What is the value of lcFile?
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>Fred Z

No. What I'm saying is that the Shell object's Run method will resolve it for you. For example, if you used

lcfile = GETFILE('doc')

to return an instance of a Word file from the My Documents folder, then

lcfile = CHR(34) + lcfile + CHR(34) && Quotes add because it's an LFN
oShell.Run(lcfile, 5, .T.)

Will launch Word and it will open the file. The Window will be "Normal" and VFP will wait until Word terminates.

The extra quotes are required because of the spaces in a long file name. If it's not an LFN, then they're not needed.