No doubt; but that is what Sysedit is for. It will put the line in the Autoexec.Bat file Win 98 will be looking for.At 08:57 AM 2/8/00 +0900, you wrote:>You may already know this, but in case you don't: > >Win 98 does not need an autoexec.bat file, but can use one. To find its >spellchecker and thesaurus, XyWrite needs to be first in a path command. > >Run Sysedit and set up a path command in the empty Autoexec.bat file with >XyWrite first after the root directory and see if that helps. Why Sysedit? Isn't XYwrite exactly the program to open and edit a c:\autoexec.bat file with? -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo