CC>     retVal = shell("c:\path\program.exe switches", vbHide)
 NA> I tried the above code and it gave me a runtime error.... It never
 NA> occured to me that I should try the value 0 instead of typing "vbHide"
 NA> so I shall make another attempt at this. 
 You also need to add some more backslashes to you path stuff.  You
 need to do something like
 "c:\\path\\program...."
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