Thanks, Sergey...
Forgot to reply back that I discovered the missing parameters...

Ken

>Ken,
>
>You've to declare all parameters for ShellExecute function. Your declaration is missing STRING lpDirectory, ;.
>
>
>> 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)
>>>