*** Quoting Cameron Clark from a message to Nauman Abbasi ***
CC> vbHide   0    Window is hidden and focus is passed to the hidden windo
CC>     so
CC>     retVal = shell("c:\path\program.exe switches", vbHide)
I tried the above code and it gave me a runtime error.... It never occured to 
me that I should try the value 0 instead of typing "vbHide" so I shall make 
another attempt at this. 
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