Reply to note from Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:21:36 -0500 > Ignore what I wrote earlier about my FileOpen.exe. Actually, Edward, you were on the right track. I took Wengier's start.exe (similar to your FileOpen.exe) and copied it to "command.com" in C:\OTVDM. In OTVDM.INI, set dosemu=command.com. Then, in XyWrite for Windows running under OTVDM, the following commands work: DOS/nv/z cmd.exe ..................... opens a CMD.EXE window DOS/nv/z my_Windows_program.exe [args] opens my_Windows_program DOS/nv/z my.pdf ...................... opens my.pdf You can accomplish much the same by copying cmd.exe to command.com, except that the command in XyWin then becomes DOS/nv/z /c etc. I like Wengier's start.exe better because it's able to suppress the briefly flashing CMD.EXE window before opening a Windows command-line program. (I had some input into its development.) I've done a little testing with msdos-player, but not enough to report anything much. On a quick try, it's main draw is the ability to run DOS programs. For myself, I'm more interested in launching Windows apps. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx