>My application seems to have trouble refreshing the screen after shelling out to a DOS program (to run a directory). The obscured portions of the screen do not refresh, even if I do a THISFORM.REFRESH at the end of the procedure! It's real strange.
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>I'm running VFP 5.0
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>Is this a known problem? Workarounds?

Try to issue

With Thisform
 .Move(.Left+1,.Top)
 .Move(.Left-1,.Top)
Endwith