ExecFile() not executing a file

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Blitzplotter
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It is a BB3d.exe . I have successfully executed the file form within my BB app prior to 'installing' my project. I have tried using the following to determine whether the confirmation that I am accessing the correct path within the application is not lieing to me:-

checkthere = FileType (filename$)
Text 5, 600, "The filetype is:- ", checkthere

checkthere is basically populated with a blank space character ? I would have thought it should be 0, 1 or 2 - I'm probably going syntactically wrong somewhere....

Ended up using a workaround:

prefilename$ = SystemProperty("AppDir")
filename$ = SystemProperty("AppDir") + "Results_Compare.exe"
;filename$ = resultzname$ WORKS
ChangeDir prefilename$
ExecFile "Results_Compare.exe"