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how do I close a shell?

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JasonParr

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I'm calling explorer which kicks of a series of events for me but I don't know how to close it once the events have started. Any ideas?
-Jason
 
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if its a dos shell window, you can close it with the following type call..


Dim retval
retval = shell("COMMAND.COM /c anyfile.exe",1)

 
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