>Folks,
>
>I have to call a number of things in the 95 or NT OS:
>
>For example:
>Status of COM port
>Unconditional reboot
>Kill a particular app (thread?)
>etc.
>
>I know that you can access the Win32 api from within VFP5.0 - is there any docs around (apart from the sparse MS ones), examples etc. ?
>
>Would appreciate any help.
>
>Gerry.

Hi Gerry,

You may be better off just getting a book on the API. Usually the examples are in VB or C++ or Delphi. If you can do any code translation I would suggest this approach. I found a good book on the API at www.amazon.com .