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Hi,

How can I check whether a program, started with the 'shell' function,
has terminated? Can this be done with value, returned from the shell
function?

Thx

Marc
Nov 13 '05 #1
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Hi,

How can I check whether a program, started with the 'shell' function,
has terminated? Can this be done with value, returned from the shell
function?

Thx

Marc

Nov 13 '05 #2

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