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Darron, Kevin Helms recently uploaded a beautiful little program that allows you to do exactly what you want. It's called Select, (SELECT.ARC in DL 9), and works like this: In a script file, you place the line… select games programming wordprocessor database whatever and when executed, Select puts up a window with all the choices you specified on the command line, plus a CANCEL option, in gadgets. A click on any of the gadgets will execute a file in your S: directory of the same name as you specified. In the above example, 'database' or 'wordprocessor' would be fecthed from S:, and it miht do a few ASSIGNs if needed, perhaps a CD, and run your favourite word processor or database. 'games' and 'programming' would probably have another Select command within them, perhaps something like: select assembler modula-2 C Icon which in turn would fetch script files with the appropriate name and lead you right to what you wanted to do. It's a very nice tool, and I recommend it highly. Regards, Larry.