On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:03:13 -0500, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> but not this: >> >> winword path/to/myfile.doc & >> >> > What error do you get? No error, or rather, a flood of fixme error as before. Maybe something useful is burred there... The bottom line, the file is not opened. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/