Any return value greater that 32 indicates success. It cannot be a program's return code because ShellExecute launches a program and doesn't wait for it to complete. For synchronous execution take a look at API_APPRUN in .VCX form File #9477.

>A VFP COM-component fires GhostScript. This all works fine but I now want to determine what the returnvalue means.
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>This is the command:
>liRetVal = ShellExecute(0, "open", lcProg, lcParms, cGSFolder, 2)
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>On my machine this command returns 42. What does this mean? Is this good or bad? Is there a list of the ShellExecute command. I have Googled and have found some values but 42 is not among them. Is 42 returned by GhostScript?
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