You might want to create a variant of this command file ... parm myfile loc="c:\_data\" <<change loc to your default dir>> setvar mycmd chr(27) + "&oF SHELL EXPLORER.EXE !loc!myfile" echo !mycmd deletevar mycmd <saved as myexp.pub or ? per HPPATH> usage: myexp help.hlp myexp help.htm myexp help.txt etc... hth ... rollie amurao Softkeys-CSI