>Hello chaps/Chapesses
>
>Will keep this very breif and not bore you to much.
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>windows 2000 network 40+ machine running windows 95 and word 97 (I know, please no comments)
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>Running a Visual 5 application that has an option to select an RTF file and opens it in Word 97 Using OLE or DDE (system option to select which to use)
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>The problem is that when you go to get the file via the GETFILE() function the open file dialogue just flashes momentarily and then vanishes.
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>Only occurs on 4 machines, have rebuilt, reinstalled runtimes etc still happens?
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>Any ideas?
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>Regards
>Chris

Try clear typehead before you issue the getfile command.

Einar