Larry >But LAUNCH can also be used with a complete >command line (LAUNCH C:\RBTI\RBDOS65\RBASE.EXE DoRep.CMD) and will work >similarly to a ZIP command except that the specified program will run in a >separate process. (At least, I think that's true).<
Yes you're right. The 'enhanced' version of Launch that accepts parameters can now work that way. The original version didn't take parameters so I think you were stuck on file associations or just bringing up an .exe without startup options. >You could set up the Access database with just your report and links to the >R:Base data. Then specify a startup form that would print the report and >then quit Access. That would print the report with no user intervention. EXACTLY what I planned on doing. I would have RBase do the questioning to determine which ID# to print the report for. Then in order for Access to know which item to print, I was thinking of having RBase drop a text file on the hard drive with the ID# in it, having Access read the text file. In the meantime, I'm exploring write out to an HTML file from within RBase. It's alot easier than I thought and might be the ticket if I can get a few formatting and page break issues settled. If it works, I might post it in case it helps anyone. Karen
