>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.

Harry,

Try delimiting the parameters with spaces rather than commas.