Thanks Sergey. I had tried it with ! but was using ' to delineate the text which didn't work. I also missed the /N.


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>RUN /n "c:\program files\dfds\trp manager\trp.exe"
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>>Suppose you wanted to have a short EXE that launches a second EXE as in the following:
>>

>>clear
>>olddate = fdate('c:\program files\dfds\trp manager\trp.exe',1)
>>newdate = fdate('\\tpdfiles\data\dfreeman\applications\trpmanager\trp.exe',1)
>>
>>if newdate > olddate
>>	ans = messagebox("There is a newer version of TRP Manager available. " + ;
>>		"Would you like to copy it to your workstation now?",3)
>>	do case
>>	case ans = 6
>>		copy file '\\tpdfiles\data\dfreeman\applications\trpmanager\trp.exe' to ;
>>			'c:\program files\dfds\trp manager\trp.exe'
>>	case ans = 2
>>		cancel
>>	endcase
>>endif
>>
>>do 'c:\program files\dfds\trp manager\trp.exe'
>>

>>
>>But you wanted the first EXE to close at the end of the script and leave the second EXE running (trp.exe in this case).
>>
>>How would you do this?