I am running WIN2000 Professional on a workstation accessing a Novell 4.11 file server. I have a DOS application on the file server that has a batch file to run it. We use this batch file from Win95 workstations and runs fine. When I run the batch file from a WIN2000 workstation the application gets corrupted index files and we have to reindex. I notice that if I use taskbar to create an icon on my desktop and I choose the bat file I get different properties for it than if I use the exe file. Why is this.

Win 2000 doesn't have real DOS. It's not surprising you're having problems. Stick to the 95 machines to run your program.

I agree. I keep a win95 machine for running the old batch files.

although w2k can use .bat files it is recommended to use .cmd extensions. I'm not saying that the program wil run but at least you can try this