have to contradict :

there is a space between \ and outlook !
trailing \ is to make clear that it's a directory not a file ... outlook is the new name ... tested on NT successful :

shell '%ComSpec% ren h:\exchange\ outlook >nul 2>nul'

sorry,not clearly documented in NT Help but working

Jochen

[ 08 October 2001: Message edited by: jpols ]

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