>George,
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>I can get it to spawn a DOS window, by just using command.com as the DocApp: ?shellexecute( h, "open", "command.com", "", "c:\", 1 )
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>I can get it to run a bat file just using the .bat as the DocApp: ?shellexecute( h, "open", "c:\test1.bat", "", "c:\", 1 )
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>I can get it to run xcopy: ?shellexecute( h, "open", "xcopy", "autoexec.bat autoexec.xyz", "c:\", 1 )
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>I can't get it to run one of the DOS internal commands though.... that was until I went spelunking in command.com with the old PCMag DR utility...
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>This works great lasts a long time: ?shellexecute( h, "open", "command.com", "/c copy autoexec.bat autoexec.xyz", "c:\", 1 ) The window flashes up then goes away.
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>If you use a /k switch command.com will not terminate when it's done.
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>Ain't DOS grand?
>
>This is all tested under Win95.

(Bows deeply)My hat's off to you, David. So I'm not the only one who keeps old computer magazines. :-) My results were just about the same in the first couple of cases, but I never would have thought about the command line switch.

While you're here, take a look at Timothy's post in this section. Maybe something will jump out at you that I've missed. I'm working on it now.