Hello,

just wanted to show an alternate way to wait for the process to finish ..

CreateProcess ...

  * waiting until the termination of the program
    DOEVENTS
    DO WHILE .T.
       exitcode = 0                    && initialize return value to 0
       = GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess, @exitcode) 
     IF exitcode # 259                && not still busy
         EXIT                            && fall out of loop
     ENDIF
     = Sleep (100)                    && wait .1 seconds
    ENDDO

should be replacable by a

DECLARE INTEGER WaitForSingleObject IN kernel32.dll INTEGER, INTEGER
lnRetVal = WaitForSingleObject(hThreadHandle,INFINITE)

which sets the VFP process into an idle waitstate without using any processor resources until the other application finishes ..

Regards
Christian