>Thanks. Found them. Can you tell me why does this cause an error from the command window?

>od=CREATEOBJECT("MSComDlg.CommonDialog.1")
>od.AboutBox()  && This works, but...
>od.Flags= 0x00080000
>od.filename="*.*"
>od.ShowOpen()  && ...this causes an OLE error

>However, if I put the OLE control on a form and run the form, the control works the way it's supposed to.

You have to put control on the form anyway or you'll get licensing error in runtime (mskb #Q192693).