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If you just want to start some external app, use &quot;shell&quot;. The inputs to shell are program name and window mode. such as: shell(&quot;c:\windows\notepad.<wbr />exe&quot;,vbMin<wbr />imized)
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If you just want to start some external app, use "shell". The inputs to shell are program name and window mode. such as: shell("c:\windows\notepad.exe",vbMinimized)

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If you want your app to wait for the executed program to finish, look here for ExecCmd:<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q129/7/96.asp" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q129/7/96.asp</a>
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If you want your app to wait for the executed program to finish, look here for ExecCmd:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q129/7/96.asp [http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q129/7/96.asp]

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I have just recently started using VB5 and would like to create an application to start programs such as 'WINZIP' by a button or icon interface and I was wondering how you would call an external program using a button/Icon.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Steve
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I have just recently started using VB5 and would like to create an application to start programs such as 'WINZIP' by a button or icon interface and I was wondering how you would call an external program using a button/Icon.

Thanks
Steve

Running External Programs

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