Dimitry

>A follow up question. If I change my code to the one you suggest, are you saying that the call to
>DECLARE INTEGER, inside the FUNCTION ShellExecute() will not produce anything, if it is called the second time? How would I see it in the Debugger?

* we assume no DLL is declared yet
* next line calls the function, the function declares and call the dll
ShellExecute( ....
* next line calls the the dll directly, because dll has precedence over function
ShellExecute( ....

* oops, a fool clear the dlll
clear dlls ShellExecute

* next line calls the function again, since the dll is not longer declared
ShellExecute( ....

*repeat until false

FUNCTION  ShellExecute (tHWND, tlpVerb, tlpFile, tlpParameters, tlpDirectory, tnShowCmd)

 DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN "Shell32.dll" ;
    INTEGER HWND, ;
    STRING lpVerb, ;
    STRING lpFile, ;
    STRING lpParameters, ;
    STRING lpDirectory, ;
    LONG nShowCmd

 RETURN  ShellExecute (tHWND, tlpVerb, tlpFile, tlpParameters, tlpDirectory, tnShowCmd )
Endfunc