>Hi George,
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>>It doesn't in my version of 98. It returns 31. Of course, I ran this test from the command window in VFP 6.0, but no dialog appeared. Hmm, maybe I'd better hit the MS site to check for updates. I would have thought, however, that being a Universal MSDN subscriber they would have sent one to me, but I can't recall seeing one.
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>Maybe I'm wrong. I was sure that it did when I tested this for my API session in November, but I'll check out what I did then.
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Hi Christof,

As Dennis pointed out in his post to me, look at the Knowledge Base article Q192352. It references the _shellexecute ffc class (in _environ.vcx). It states that there's an exe that you invoke (RUNDLL32.EXE) in using the ShellExecute function to bring up the "Open with..." dialog. Since the last update of the article is 9/8/98 and the platform mentioned was simply "WINDOWS", I'll bet I know what you did. You probably sub-classed the process and forgot about it.:-) It would surprise me in the least. I've done the same thing many times myself.

Regards,