How to know if a Shelled Program ends?

[Leon Lim]

Hi all,

I need to shell to an external program from my VB application.
How do I know if my shell program has completed?
I need to complete the shell program before I can proceed with the later part of the program.

Thank you.

[KenX]

see the tip...
"Knowing when an app has finished the shell command"
http://www.vbsquare.com/tips/tip280.html
and/or
"How do I tell when an app executed using SHELL is finished?"
http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip5.html