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>I don't understand why you wouldn't want to use the IE object model. If the association to an HTM file is IE, it is going to be launched anyway. Is the reason because users may have other browsers as the default browser and you can't be sure if they even have an object model?

That is part of the reason. The other part is:

oIE = CREATEOBJECT( "InternetExplorer.Application" )
oIE.Navigate( "c:\test.htm#q1" )
oIE.Visible = .T.

Now the user views the info, then closes the browser, I can't issue another navigate because RPC Server is unavaliable, but I can't test if it is closed because TYPE( "oIE" ) still returns "O". How do I get around that? I'd really rather not CREATEOBJECT() the same object over and over again. Thanks Larry,
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