Oups. My mistake.
Since Copy and MD and intrinsic commands, they cannot be called this way.
Why don't you use FSO (
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;190882 ) to manipulate files and folders?
>Hi,
>
>The Shell Function in VB "Runs an executable program and returns a Variant (Double) representing the program's task ID if successful, otherwise it returns zero."
>
>But it doesnt runs a DOS command, for example:
>
>I've created a Form with a button
>
>sub Command1_click()
> shell "copy c:\Folder\doc1.sql c:\Sql\doc2.txt"
>end sub
>
>when I run it, returns
>
>Run-time error '53'
>File Not Found
Éric Moreau, MCPD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
Moer inc.
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