Greeting Sergey

Sorry. Gave the wrong question shellexecute question. Yes that works for me too, as does my own example. The problem I meant to raise was passing MULTIPLE parameters.

eg
parmstring=advice+','+question+','+options+','+boxhead

result=ShellExecute(0,cAction,cFILENAME,parmstring,"",1)

what happens is that the receiving programs receive all parameters as a single string with no commas. Up till now I've had to parse the incoming string and assign the parameters in code