>Your advice on how to run VFP7 worked -- however, upon completion of the running of the VFP app (without any screen output) control returned back to my calling program but left VFP running as a service. Running it again -- another copy left running as a service -- not sure how to handle this new wrinkle -- been off doing other things, but need to get back to and solve this problem. Some suggest it is a rights issue, but clueless on what to do next.

VFP is not going to close by itself. After you done, issue

app.Quit