> Presumably anything I did based on it wouldn't come anywhere
> near the almost 7k of that macro.
Definitely not...  That macro has a lot of things in it you probably
don't want.
> On the other hand, I don't see it coming down to within an order of
> magnitude of the single line it takes in 4DOS.
True, it won't be a single line, however it will be a bit more flexible
since you have access to all of the low-level handling.
But, as I said, you probably don't want to mess with it.  However, here
is a thought...  You could call the file manager macro -- all you would
do for that is:
    ExecMacro("f ")
In place of the DOS() call...  Just a thought.
That would eliminate the need to shell out to DOS, plus you could do
anything else that you might want to from there... (including
copy/delete/move files, tag multiple files, etc.)
                           George J. De Bruin
                       SemWare Technical Support
 
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