Tracy,
I tried code similar to yours...

DECLARE integer ShellExecute IN "Shell32.DLL" ;
integer hwnd, ;
string lpVerb, ;
string lpFile, ;
string lpParamenters, ;
long nShowCmd

= ShellExecute(0, "Open","acrord32.exe", "y:\tx2004b1\guide\start.pdf", "", 3)

and also the following code from the link you had...

DECLARE integer ShellExecute IN Shell32 ;
integer hwnd, ;
string lpVerb, ;
string lpFile, ;
string lpParamenters, ;
integer nShowCmd

= ShellExecute(0, "Open","y:\tx2004b1\guide\start.pdf","", "", 3)

In both cases I got an error message "Too many arguments". I've got Acrobat 5.0 installed on my Win 2K computer.

What am I doing wrong?

Ken Penrod

>Actually, I take that back. If there is a registry entry for acrord32.exe then it works without the path. I just tested the below succsfully:
>

>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN "Shell32.dll" ;
>    INTEGER hwnd, ;
>    STRING lpVerb, ;
>    STRING lpFile, ;
>    STRING lpParameters, ;
>    STRING lpDirectory, ;
>    LONG nShowCmd
>
>llok=ShellExecute(0, "open", "acrord32.exe", " /p /h c:\acordforms\finishedforms\61nc.pdf", "", 0)
>