>>Greeting Sergey
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>>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.
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>>eg
>>parmstring=advice+','+question+','+options+','+boxhead
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>>result=ShellExecute(0,cAction,cFILENAME,parmstring,"",1)
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>>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.
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>Harry,
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>Try delimiting the parameters with spaces rather than commas.

Ah so. thanks