Hi Phil,

>Its clear from the past days efforts that I need to use something other than the VFP RUN command to launch a couple of viewer programs - Envoy, Word and Acrobat.

There is the API, look for that in the Files and FAQs here, also, check out the FFC class ShellExecute (VFP6 FFC classes), that will do what you want, and you can just steal the couple of lines of code.