Hallo Vic
VB> As I said I think the problem is that win95 isn't allowing umb's to be 
VB> used when opening a 4dos window. I'm not sure why shelling out again 
VB> from a prog doesn't give the error though.
As I told before in a message that went unacknowledged, WIN 3.1x _and_ WIN 
95/98 _must_ have an System.ini entry in section [386ENH] that reads 
LocalLoadHigh=1 in order to provide UMBs to a DOS session. Simply add that 
line and reboot. One hitch: there must be free UMB mem before WIN starts to 
provide some later...
Grsse aus Ostrhauderfehn, 
*Klaus Meinhard*
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