Bill> Eh? Why not? You can call TerminateProcess() on the process Bill> handle you dig up via OpenProcess() &/or CreateProcess(). Hi Bill! The issue with call-process is this: XEmacs on Unix uses non-blocking read for the child-process, so that the user can keyboard-quit out of it. At the moment int this_read = Lstream_read (XLSTREAM (instream), bufptr + nread, bufsize - nread); around line 482 in callproc.c of 21.2-b19 blocks until the process terminates. On Unix the Lstream implementation uses sys_read_1() for non-blocking reads. Does Windows95/98/NT have non-blocking read()? MSDN for Visual Studio 6.0 does not make me think so. Thanks for any help, Adrian Bill> e.g.: Bill> if (!TerminateProcess(hProcess, (UINT)<forced exit code>)) Bill> { Bill> <insert error handling here> Bill> } Bill> Bill