>>Whoops, it's Friday (see other post):-). I spoke without checking the results in the DOS window. Still can't do it. Get the following messages:
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>>Specified COMMAND search directory bad.
>>Too many parameters
>>Too many parameters
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>>However, pasting the parameter string in the DOS window worked fine. Hmm, maybe the best way to do this is a PIF file.
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>I could never get that to work either.
>Bad computer day, apps crashing all over :(.
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>Going home, phone off the hook!

Using RUN with it works fine, though. Apparently you can run DOS programs through ShellExecute(), but not command line stuff. You can (or could in FPW 2.6)use WinExec() with PIFs.

As for that last part, 4 hours 'til I get to do that. Then it'll be Go home and have a few beers and hope that next week is better.