>I was looking for the syntax to bring up outlook express by starting a new message and have the body filled with the contents of current any given dbf.
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>This should help get you started:
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>#DEFINE SW_SHOWNORMAL     1
>#DEFINE SW_SHOWMINIMIZED  2
>#DEFINE SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED  3
>lcFileName = "mailto:anita@drink.com?Subject=yada yada&Body=this is a test"
>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN shell32 ;
>        INTEGER lnhwnd, STRING lcOperation, ;
>        STRING lcFile, STRING lcParameters, ;
>        STRING lcDirectory, INTEGER lnShowCmd
>lnRes = ShellExecute( 0, "open", lcFileName, "", "", SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED )
>

Actually I figured it out, I just did a pre-append as you see here
lcFileName="mailto:timbowen1@drink.com?Subject=" +title+"&Body="+contents
the only problem that contents is a memo field and anytime there is an ampersand, it deciphers it as a special char and so the rest of the memo field gets truncated. oh well.