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In article <5ccb684e90News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
   Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <D4l*rvnEA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
>    Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > I can think of a couple of routes to doing what you want:

> > 1. Have your desktop program run the command of 
> > '*Basic -load $.MyProg'
> > Then it starts Basic with the file loaded but not run.

Actually, it already does that. 

> > 2. Have your desktop program set a system variable

Yes, I added my code for that this morning.

It now sets both Basic$Dir and now Basic$File. 

> 11 DEF FNid       :REM insert program name at P% 
> 12   SYS "XOS_ReadVarVal","Basic$Prog",P%,255,0,3 TO ,,L% 
> 13   P% += L% :REM move ptr after name 
> 14  = 0

That's helpful thanks.

Bob.