Check out the help of ! / Run. It talks about PIF configuration.

Instead, you should use DECLARE DLL with ShellExecuteEx.API.

Aashish

>Hi all,
>
>We currently run a dos script from within our vfp 6 app which calls it by
>"! " etc in a macro variable.
>
>Our customer has upgraded to XP and we are getting an error message indicating !run doesnt exist.
>
>Is there a vfp 6 equivelant for XP.
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Steve