Okay. I got the app to launch but the variable is picked up in its literal form. In this case, if I declare lcComputerName (and the debugger IS acknowledging that the user-supplied value for the variable is publicly available) then...

RUN /N application.exe lcComputerName

...is running exactly as that (error from the launched app is that there is no machine named lcComputerName).

How should I package this so that lcComputerName is properly interpreted to be whatever input the user supplies?

Thanks again...

Alan