Subject Re: unable to execute dos From Andy Taylor <andy.taylor.1959@outlook.com> Date Sun, 2 Oct 2022 17:59:59 +0100 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Attachment(s) run thumbs.jpg Hi Mervyn & Charlie, Well, I think your post is aimed fairly and squarely at Charlie's original problem which is: Why won't "run thumbs" work from within dBASE on my laptop: Mine wasn't aimed at that specifically but was trying to find out why "run thumbs" does already work from cmd.exe on the laptop, which Charlie says it does.  In my view it should not, unless there is a run.exe or run.bat actually launching the thumbs program. Having re-read Charlie's original post he said he was running thumbs from the Windows command prompt, which I have pictured below..., and which I took to mean he had opened cmd.exe at that point. My mistake. So, Thumbs.exe must be available to windows on that laptop, in the same way that, for example, Notepad.exe is. Charlie, Have you tried varying the run command in dBASE to include, for example: run thumbs run ("thumbs.exe") run ("c:\TheFolderThatContainsThumbs\Thumbs.exe") run (true,"thumbs.exe") run (true,"D:\TheFolderThatContainsThumbs\Thumbs.exe") Andy > > Charlie isn't trying to physically execute thumbs.exe from a DOS window. > The RUN command in a dBASE form or program should execute outside of > dBASE any .exe, .com or .bat file passed to it. >