> I am doing a remote start of GIMP for Windows from a Visual Basic 6 > application. that looks something like this: > response = Shell("C:\Program Files\GIMP\bin\gimp.exe C:\ImpImages\Main.SelectedImage") > Is there some way to force the default directory to be the same as the > directory I specified when remote starting GIMP? Umm, call whatever is Visual Basic's equivalent to chdir() before that Shell() call? (And chdir() back to where you are afterwards, if necessary.) --tml