Dan- Thursday, July 28, 2005, 10:03:22 PM, you wrote: DS> Well, I should say that I tried it directly in the shell, not from DS> Rev. There, I typed: DS> start "blah\blah\doc.pdf" Make sure you use a fully-qualified path: "drive:\root\subdirectory\etc\document.ext" -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net