Mark - and anyone else who may be interested - I'm delighted to say that I've got over the problem of misreading the batch file into the Out folder as follows:
My programme now opens 'The Bat!' automatically, THEN creates 'thebat.ipc' with the command lines in it. This works every time - no hiccups whatever. The fact still remains that I can't open the Bat and get it to read my Batch file properly from the Windows run prompt. Neither can I get over the problem by creating 'thebat.ipc' and then running 'The Bat!' - it hardly ever reads in all the data. Luckily, however, I don't need to do either now - the first method is easier than either of these, with the additional advantage that it actually works.. I don't know whether this problem is peculiar to me, but perhaps this may save someone some time and trouble in future. I wonder if The Bat software people are aware of it? -- -Julian ________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
