>Thanks.. it works with '! /n', but it starts a new session of VFP.. to slow... I do have a read events in each .exe.... Should I class the LBP.exe and instantiate it from main???? That's something else I don't know how to do... any suggestions on doing this??? thanks..

Paul,

as Main & Lbp are both VFP exe's, you do not want to use
the Run/! command to invoke Lbp. simply do the following
in the Main Project in order that the Lbp program will
not be included in Main.

...
      x = "LBP"
      do &x
      ... resume main process- whatever
...

it will then go to Lbp without starting Fox all over again,
and will therefore run much faster!

HTH,

Lucien T. Elliott Programmer/Analyst
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