Hi Ronald,

why don't you use the shell32.dll function 'shellexecute' to tell windows 'open this textfile' and let the user decide, which programm has to be associated with this type of datafiles?

>In our appliacation, various reminders to the user are recorded in a text file in their documents folder and we programically start notepad when the user wants to refer to them.
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>Presently i use the following with any indication as to the path to notepad.exe
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run /n notepad "path\filename"

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>However, now the request is to use wordpad! How can I activate wordpad?
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>On my computer it is located in the "program files\windows NT\accessories" and have to include that in the run command by having
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run /n (path\wordpad.exe)  "path\filename"

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> However, I do not know if all workstations will have it located in the same folder.
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>I suppose I could make sure it is located in a common directory on each workstation, however, I was hoping that there would be some generic way to call wordpad that would work on all xp workstations.
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>Thanks in advance