Hi Menachem.

>VFP 7 is in use here and I am trying to stay within that framework for now. The code is so sensitive that I am trying to avoid upgrading...

That's why I suggested using a small VFP 8 EXE -- the only thing it does is run the reports. We've done that in the past with a FoxPro 2.6 for Windows application that the client didn't want rewritten in VFP. We created a VFP EXE that just handled some reports stuff that FoxPro 2.6 couldn't handle.

Doug