davidm

Thanks for your reply I'll give it a try Know any decent tutorials on all this whs stuff?

hi I have the following batch file set inp=c:\cob\SPOOL\tlushmla.prt set outp=c:\cob\SPOOL\tlushmla.htm otshtm10 the above sets the input and output files for a cobol exe file - otshtm10 I succeeded to run the program in windows using the following vbs script SET WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Return = WshShell.Run ("c:\cob\otshtm10", 1, true) My question is what is the format of the 2 set statements in a vbs script Thanks for any help David "paddling upstream searching for the source"