>>Hey Bill,
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>>Check this article in the MS KB Q191501. It mentions that there is a problem with. It also provides a workaround (call the SetErrorMode() API call).
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>Read it. Interesting. So under Win98 you get no system error at all. NT is a picky beast ... but theoretically, that's good. :-)

Oh yeah. Not working with NT at all, I didn't know and did a quick search of the MSDN library (invaluable sucker that it is< g >). As I said to Ed, since the WSH doesn't required anything but the call, it's one of those cases where it may be more desirable to use than a native function.