Closing a DOS window (1 Viewer)

[ayjayh]

Hi all
I have a button on my Form which On Click runs an Event Procedure which among other things has a "Call Shell" instruction to run PKpak.
PKpak is a DOS program and runs in a DOS window. PKpak then zips up several tables which have just been exported as dbase3 files.
(I am using PKpak so I can transfer the files to another computer which runs in DOS mode and can unzip the files using PKunpak for use with dbase3).
All works fine except that I have to manually close the DOS window when PKpak has finished. This is no big deal really but is not very elegant is it?
Is there an instruction I can add to automatically close the DOS window?
Thanks
Tony

 

[rich.barry]

There's a cunning way around most things...here's a starting suggestion.

Make a batch file called say PKANEXIT.BAT which contains the text

PKPak whatever your Shell Call said
EXIT

Make your VB Code say Shell "C:\PKANEXIT.BAT"

 

[ayjayh]

Thanks Rich,
That worked fine after I figured out setting the program properties to "close on exit"