Thanks for the reply, if this were an in-house app I'd have no problem with that solution.. but since it's an end-user app with the infinite possibilities I'd like to solve this way if I could.. my boss has already suggested that he did not want the user to supply the necessary info in a textbox.

-- Len

>Len,
>
>when I needed a fast way to execute a 16-Bit exe
>in NT with it's own memory space, I went with
>calling a .lnk file.
>
>I faced into similar problems, and since it
>was for an inside-debugging job, I didn't wnat to spent
>more time than necessary: itwas possible
>to RUN a batchfile which called the link.
>
>not pretty, but not much work either...
>
>HTH
>
>thomas