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synchronous shelling in VB

paniniter · 2004-02-09 12:52:17

I'm trying to do something simple with a shell - just calling a batch file, and when it finishes, return to the vb code. Only problem is i dont know how to do this. I searched the internet about it, and found something useful here, but i dont know how to use it, cos i'm new to programming. At the moment my code says…

09-02-2004 01:52PM

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paniniter

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I'm trying to do something simple with a shell - just calling a batch file, and when it finishes, return to the vb code. Only problem is i dont know how to do this. I searched the internet about it, and found something useful here, but i dont know how to use it, cos i'm new to programming. At the moment my code says something like this:
Dim retvaL
retvaL = Shell("c:\123.bat", 0)
MsgBox "Done!"

Any idea what i have to change this to to make it synchronous?

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