>>>>>I need to be able to run a DOS command (in particular the "net use" command) and see any results given by the command. In other words, instead of the results being printed to the screen I need them to be returned to my foxpro program. Any ideas? Hmm...I'm stymied.
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>>>>TRY "run net use >somefile"
>>>>then examine somefile for the output and you can work with it from there.
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>>>That was the first thought I had too, but the problem is in NT 3.51 (we are running a citrix server) the output is still printed to the screen.
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>>you could try "run net use >>somefile" or put it in a .bat file and execute that.
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>>>somefile will output the results to the file, but it will not surpress the output to the screen. So, I can still see the results of the net use command at the bottom of my screen in the app. Hmm..

You mean it flashes briefly?
the only thing I can think of is to define a hidden window or something minimal and run it from there but I have never needed to do this.
Let me know if you finally get it to work right.