>>A while ago, I seem to remember there was a thread discussing running a DOS application, without the DOS window showing - I thought I must take note of that, cos I'll want to do that soon. Unfortunately, I didn't & can't remember what solution was suggested.
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>Check out Ed Rauh's API_APPRUN class in the files section.

THanks to both of you for the help, unfortunately I can't find the file in the files section - I've looked in the most obvious sections.

It's probably very obvious, but its late here & my mind is shutting down, if you could let me know the specific section in the files section I would greatly appreciate it,

thanks
Paul