Yes, it's only setting mess and err mess on. That's it. No, I guess we haven't looked to make sure there is a TEMP environment variable. I think the windows 7.6 startup uses the same technique so I have to assume. But I'll check that too.
Karen > I can guess, but what is in messon.cmd? > > Did you check to see if you actually have a TEMP environment variable? > > > > >

