> I guess I am not sure what the problem is with WinExec. Originally > ShellExecuteEx used CreateProcessA and ShellExecute used WinExec, which > simply calls CreateProcessA. I could certainly directly call > CreateProcessA if that is preferable. Yes, I tried to do that once before but could not get it to work quite right as I am still learning how to program. Mingw cant import from the Win16 api so CreateProcess needs to be used if we want to have shell32 for testing under mingw or use under ReactOS. Thanks Steven __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com