Hi Anatoily. Thanks for your reply.
It seemed that the /.PDF file was not asscoiated with Adobe.
I went in and took Borisalv suggestion to 'Make' the association and it works fine now.
regards,
Gerard


>How to find an application associated with the file name
>http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=138
>
>On my computer, the code below returns
>D:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
>
>Note that file c:\temp\test.pdf must exist, though in fact this can be just a dummy file of zero size.
>
>

DECLARE INTEGER FindExecutable IN shell32;
>    STRING lpFile, STRING lpDir, STRING @lpResult
> 
>lcResult = SPACE(250)
> 
>IF FindExecutable ("c:\temp\test.pdf", "", @lcResult) > 32
>    lcResult = ALLTRIM(STRTRAN(lcResult, Chr(0), " "))
>    ? lcResult
>ELSE
>    *    2 = ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
>    *    3 = ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND
>    *   21 = ERROR_NOT_READY
>    *  127 = ERROR_PROC_NOT_FOUND
>    * 1008 = ERROR_NO_TOKEN
> 
>    DECLARE INTEGER GetLastError IN kernel32
>    ? "Error code:", GetLastError()
>ENDIF