Not an API guy but seems it will be easy through API
Check out this site might you can find something of your use.

http://news2news.com/vfp/

Aashish

>Thanks Aashish,
>
>I need to run a Dos window, which will be passed a command to run a third
>party product. In NT, 2000 etc this works but I think the way DOS is called has changed in XP.
>
>Is there another shell command that can be run in VFP 6 for XP purposes?
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve