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Yes, Khalid's utility is an ideal solution. Yes XICON, IXECUTE, and a couple others all do the same thing. Just make sure it is in your C; directory. Then create a batch file with your editor, save it with an icon and use the INFO option from workbench to view the info for that file. Make the default tool c:XICON (or whatever). Now you can click on the file and it will run as a batch file using XICON. There is one "gotcha." I find some/mV+_On?(Wm66 no@run through XICON. The workaround is simple. Use the iconified batch file to open a CLI, run another batch file and close again. Suppose the file that XICON runs, say "StartTerm," contains the line: NEWCLI FROM s:StartMyTermProg If StartMyTermProg has the lines: KhalidRename CISCAP.TXT Access! endcli When you double click "StartTerm" a CLI will open up and run "StartMyTermProg" in it. It will rename your file, start Access and the cli will close when you quit Access. The CLI will hang around until Access is done so you might want to make it smaller. Change StartTerm to NEWCLI con:50\50\50\50\TermCLI FROM s:StartMyProg — Art