Have tested the code from Chips. That works excelent. However, it does not transfer keystrokes to the third application running under the Shell command; Need to have the following keystroke sequence entered, when this application is running; "[name] + CR + LF + Ctrl-A +Ctrl-C", - to capture the data into the clipboard. Tried a test.bat file with a %1 transfer of the string, without any success. Anyone have ideas..?