Carl: The DO command has been cranky for me. Try DOS/nv/x/z /c [path]\wordpad. Note that there's a space before and after /c. Can you launch any other win programs from the Xy cmd line? Can you launch a batch file that would then launch a win program? I have 95 and NT, but no XyWrite on the NT machine. I'll do some experimenting, however, with batch files launching Win programs. Tim Baehr tbaehr@xxxxxxxx