Does it work if you just cut and paste the shortcut target string into a kix shell command ?

Else, I'm just suggesting variations on a theme here...

break on

shell '%comspec% /c start m:\test\notepad.lnk' ; use short fn's and no quotes

?"error=@serror"

exit

Shawn.

[This message has been edited by Shawn (edited 05 April 2001).]