Myron's discovery, below, works in W98 first edition, too. Who knew? But then again, doing this is more awkward than working within Xy.If XyWrite 4 DOS is open in a Win2K window (ie not full screen), you can go to the command line, type "ca " (without the quotation marks, of course), drag a file name, fully specified, from Windows Explorer to the XyWrite command line and call it up!Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx