In addition to what others have suggested, look for a file called
RBASE.DAT. If RBase finds this file then it will automatically
run it. Just have your "start in" directory on the icon be the
directory where your database and the RBase.dat file is,
and it will open it.
> This is probably trivial in a sense. I am not an extensive user of
> Rbase, in fact only one application, a simple database that I have
> used for well over 5 years. Just a while ago, complete computer
> crash, reinstall the OS, in this case XP-PRO. I can find the shortcut
> to my working program with the database, and the database files, but
> not the application itself. I can open Rbase and look at the
> datafiles, but there must be there a program that 'runs' the system
> as I use it. But I do not know what that application is called, or my
> real question, the file type.
>
