Hi Adrian, On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:29:06 -0600, Adrian Drury wrote:

I read the list in digest form - sorry my response won't be threaded in properly!

How about this for your question, Idris? Pure DOS batch file stuff. I tested it with notepad instead of Acrobat, but I assume it should be close to working as shown here.

@ echo off

IF "%1"=="" GOTO NOARG

for /R C:\context %%n IN (.) DO IF EXIST %%n\%1 ( Echo Found %%n\%1 start Acrobat.lnk %%n\%1 GOTO END )

:NOTFOUND echo Couldn't find %1 GOTO END

:NOARG echo Specify a file name to find

:END

This works beautifully! Thank you so much!!! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/