Terry,

You can use shellexcute as shown in Open any document FAQ #8134 or WSH as in Re: Pls Help .. Mr.Ed Rauh's FAQ ID: 7789 , api_apprun Thread #888760 Message #888807

>Hell, I've been running and inventing all day and now my brain's turned to mush.
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>What it is, I've been invoking MapInfo with a startup workspace file, via the command:
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>RUN /N C:\Program Files\MapInfo\Professional\mapinfow.exe c:\mcl_windows\MapProg\Startup.wor
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>... and all's well.
>Now, this means that the user, when he runs MapInfo stand-alone, always gets my maps, which is undesirable. So I have to run the system via MapBasic progs (end in .MBX for the compiled prject executable), that call up MapInfo with my maps, etc. But when I try:
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>Run /N c:\mcl_windows\mapprog\openmaps.mbx
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>I get the error "RUN/! command failed" - usually meaning unable to get the approp. shell prog to be executed.
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>I'm getting the afternoon somnolence in my chair and wondered if anyone could help solve this
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