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> What is your specific need here? To send data, keystrokes, what? You know, of course, that you *can* access the clipboard from DOS apps. -=Jonathan > I had no idea that you can access the clipboard from DOS. The VB manuals don't even have the word DOS in the index and there is no mention of communications with DOS apps. Thanks for the help Jonathan. What I am doing is writing a Windows interface for a program called Persistance of Vision (POV) Ray Tracer, available here on CSN. Its a wonderful program that does ray tracing from simple data files defining objects in 3D. The final output is a Targa file and that works great. As the program is running it constantly displays on the DOS screen the line number it is tracing, and when its done it displays statistics of the ray tracing. I want to get the line numbers into the VB program so the user never has to look at the DOS interface. The creators of the POV Ray Tracer can do whatever I ask with the output; put it in a file or whatever. Is there a way that the DOS app can put its output on a clipboard object so I can read it from VB? That would be great. There is 1 Reply.