>Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here:
>
>
>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN "Shell32.dll" ;
> INTEGER HWND, ;
> STRING lpVerb, ;
> STRING lpFile, ;
> STRING lpParameters, ;
> STRING lpDirectory, ;
> LONG nShowCmd
>=Shellexecute(0,"Open","d:\VFPAPPS\APPDOCS\PROCS.TXT","","",0)
>
>
>I have this in a click event. I am trying to open up a text file in notepad but all it does is show an hour glass very briefly and then nothing. I am stumped.
>
>Thanks,
>George


How about using the run command instead?

run /N notepad "d:\VFPAPPS\APPDOCS\PROCS.TXT"