I want to grad the text from the clipboard and run it at the command line. I use the (DOS_CLIPBOARD) function of doslib to get the string, then how can I run it at the command line? I was thinking (eval (read (dos_clipboard))) but that did not work. This must be easy but (command ....) does not work obviously. I cant seem to get my brain to click on how to do this. thanks James Maeding Civil Engineer/Programmer