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Thanx, JockMullin, it was the Command.com that was at issue. I inserted the cmd.exe and the app is running as expected. Good Work,Sir!

I took your meaning, thanx, but as I stated in an earlier post, the program will not accept quotes. In other words, @echo off "convert.exe" will work from the command line, but not from the app, @echo off convert.exe will work from the app (or the command line; the only need for the quotes...

The code you suggest works in the app, but including iexplore.exe gives the bad coomand or file name error. The code: @echo off echo Hi, got this far pause convert.exe works as written, printing the echo and pausing, then runs the Convert program after tapping a key, but: @echo off echo Hi...

Yes, the batch file runs perfectly outside of the application.

We've tried this, and also moving iexplore.exe into the default path where we have the test file convert.exe. Ironically, convert.exe works from the batch file only, WITHOUT the quotes. Iexplore.exe will not work with or without the quotes, whether or not using the path to program Files or...

Using Summer '87 in XP I can run a test file from a batch file (ie.bat) which contains the following lines: @echo off convert.exe and this will pull-up the convert.exe program, however, substituting ixplore.exe (with the correct paths, of course) gives me a 'bad command' in my application...