I've tried all combinations of SHELL("prog", paprameter) but while one causes
the MS-DOS icon to appear at the bottom of the screen it doesn't seem to give
focus to the DOS program to run.

All other parameters seem to cause the DOS program to appear full screen until
it's finished. It looks MESSY!

Can anybody help?

Scott

P.S. It's a standard VB form not MDI.

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Scott Hatton, AT&T GIS, Dundee, Scotland
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the times.                         -  Thomas Jefferson

Declare Function WinExec Lib "Kernel" (ByVal lpCmdLine As String, ByVal
nCmdShow As Integer) As Integer

Global Const SW_HIDE = 0

' ShellStr contains the command line you want to run:

    i = WinExec("dosprmpt.pif /c  " & ShellStr, SW_HIDE)

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