Hiya GT,

>Try using ShellExecute() on the PIF file. My File Runner program has the declaration for it. I'd just use the API call itself. In other words, you don't need the rest of the code there. Windows knows what to do with the PIF file.
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>You might also want to look at Ed Rauh's APP_RUN (I think that's the title) program.
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>Just one question, what do you mean by "Works unexpectedly"? What's different?

Yeah, that was my next thing to try (ShellExecute)....well, it's a file format translation program and it stops recognizing the input file type. I really can't see why looking at the .CPP files (the source code).