Three ideas, two of them yours :)

I could try and replace those copy commands with NAME's, good idea.

cmd /c or whatever it was was not received very well by my computer when I tried it once at an earlier date :D

The other thing I'm thinking of is error trapping for just that one error, and having an error routine do a 2 second wait and then return to play ... not sure yet but maybe worth a shot

Its getting close to crunch time now cos the sim footy season starts ina few weeks and I was hoping to have QB64'd all this in time for the Admins to use it for the new season!