Hi All,
After struggling with the ShellExecute function, I ended up rewriting it
slightly.  Maybe someone else will find this useful, you will need to
add ShellApi to your "uses" list.  Maybe someone can improve it.
Bear with me here, as I am still learning this.
function ExecuteFile(const FileName, Params, DefaultDir: string;
  ShowCmd: Integer): THandle;
var
  zFileName, zParams, zDir: array[0..79] of Char;
begin
  Result := ShellExecute(Application.MainForm.Handle, nil,
    StrPCopy(zFileName, FileName), StrPCopy(zParams, Params),
    StrPCopy(zDir, DefaultDir), ShowCmd);
end;
Slan,
Jon
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