Hi Don.

>The line
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>return ShellExecute(0, lcOperation, lcFileName, lcParameters, lcWorkDir, lnShow)
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>produces an error that says "No parameter statement is found." Is there something needed in the EXE being called to receive a parameter? I added lparam at the beginning of it but that only produced another error.

I'm not seeing that. Did you put this code into a PRG called ShellExecute? If so, I think this call to ShellExecute is running the PRG again, not the Windows API function.

Doug