>Hi Hilmar
>
>That does indeed work and its completely new to me. Very interesting. A small problem with it though is the DOS box that comes up when loading. Be nice if that could go. Is 'Start' a dos command?

Yes, START is a DOS command.

OK, I found it. Use the following function, that uses the Windows API, to open any document with its default extension. If that is what you want, you don't need to find out which actually IS the default browser.

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* Copied (and adapted) from the UniversalThread (FAQ#7656, by Gérald Santerre)
* According to the author, opens an HTML document or mail.
* Actually helps to open *any* document with its default association.

FUNCTION RunDoc(tlDocument)
local lnResult

DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute ;
	IN SHELL32.dll ;
	INTEGER nWinHandle, ;
	STRING cOperation, ;
	STRING cFileName, ;
	STRING cParameters, ;
	STRING cDirectory, ;
	INTEGER nShowWindow

**retreive the main VFP window handle (this handle is used by ShellExecute)

DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow ;
	IN WIN32API ;
	STRING cNull, ;
	STRING cWinName

lnResult=ShellExecute(FindWindow( 0, _SCREEN.caption), "Open", tlDocument, "", "c:\temp\", 1)

**Error messages if the return value is < 32
IF lnResult < 32
	DO CASE
	CASE lnResult=2
		Wait wind "Asociación inválida, o URL inválido."
	CASE lnResult=31
		Wait wind "Falta la asociación."
	CASE lnResult=29
		Wait wind "No se puede iniciar la aplicación."
	CASE lnResult=30
		Wait wind "La aplicación ya está abierta."
	ENDCASE
ENDIF