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Beautiful! Thank you so much

Hi All. I just want to view a pdf file so I use the command:

tuss:=shellexecute(0,"open","c:\concentrics\cloudconnect.pdf",,,1)

and it works with windows 7 but with windows 10 nothing happens and it returns 31.

Probably its a very complicated answer but I hope not!

thanks everyone

what's an easy way to check to see if a folder exists

I have a customer who runs my FWH application on a Linux server. If they leave the application open for awhile without doing anything, or open another application and then return to the FWH application, sometimes it freezes or returns a DOS error 64 message. Any ideas why this could be happening?

I like CardiB but one has to think, in 50 years will anyone remember the music of this time like the music of the 60's is remembered now? I doubt it.

if the file already exists can't you just zap the file before running the report instead of creating a new one?

You misspelled the word include in your original post but I don't know if that's the explanation

I contacted Alaska software asking about xbase++ 2.0 and what they said was astounding. Yes, they are compatible with clipper code...but only summer 87 through 5.2. Who in the world still uses that? I loved summer 87 but it was DOS so how can DOS summer 87 code possible be made into a windows app wi...

Realistically, is there really any point to converting a large legacy FWH application to SQL files using ADORDD? I have a thousand existing installations using dbf files with zero problems. To move to a web app with an SAS model would really require starting from scratch and doing a complete rewrite...

I have a legacy FWH application consisting of hundreds of thousands of lines of virtually unreadable code using dbf files with about 1000 active installations which I would like to migrate to an SQL web-based application. Is this even practical and if so what is the best way to accomplish this?

I would just create a separate field in your database where the accents are eliminated and use that for the index key.

sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't

I have this problem all the time

I always use this and it works:

PRINT oprn name pname from user
IF EMPTY( oprn:hdc )
RETURN nil
ENDIF