Works fine Rip. Still bugs me that ShellExecute won't work but this is a fine workaround. Thanks.

George

>>Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here:
>>
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>>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?
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>run /N notepad "d:\VFPAPPS\APPDOCS\PROCS.TXT"