Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Hello Brian, > c:\pedit\pedit.exe %1 > c:\bat\vde72.bat I think you forgot the '%1' which contains the argument, i.e. the filename to edit. Also, one should use the CALL command to call a batch file from another batch file to make it return control to the calling file if it has finished. So IMO the line should read: call c:\bat\vde72.bat %1 Regards, Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --