How To Close Shelled Process When Finished under Windows 95/98/Me

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To force Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me to close the MS-DOS window you can use the Visual Basic Shell function with the /C option of COMMAND.COM. The /C option of COMMAND.COM will close the MS-DOS window under Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me. The Visual Basic syntax for using the /C option of COMMAND.COM to execute a MS-DOS program is as follows where <pathname> is the path and name of the program to execute and any command line options for it:

   h = Shell("COMMAND.COM /C <pathname>")
				

Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and Windows NT 3.51 will still behave the same if you use the /C option of COMMAND.COM. So, you can use this technique without having to check which operating system the program is running on.