Notepad doesn't require START or CMD /C but START gets it to terminate...

The ohter two ways hang until Notepad is colsed, in and screen. I think your SCREN 12 troubles are memory related. I find changing back to SCREEN 0 via SCREEN 9 solves that issue...

CLS
SCREEN 12
PRINT "Execute: SHELL " + CHR$(34) + "cmd /c start notepad" + CHR$(34)
SHELL "cmd /c start notepad"
PRINT "Execute: SHELL " + CHR$(34) + "cmd /c start notepad" + CHR$(34) + " Completed."
GOTO 100

PRINT "Execute: SHELL " + CHR$(34) + "cmd /c notepad" + CHR$(34)
SHELL "cmd /c notepad"
PRINT "Execute: SHELL " + CHR$(34) + "cmd /c notepad" + CHR$(34) + " Completed."
PRINT "Execute: SHELL " + CHR$(34) + "notepad" + CHR$(34)
SHELL "notepad"
PRINT "Execute: SHELL " + CHR$(34) + "notepad" + CHR$(34) + " Completed."

100
SCREEN 9
SCREEN 0
END

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Get rid of SCREEN 9 and SCREEN 0 and all hell breaks loose. I inckuded the other two ways to get Notepad just to demonstrate how they hang. YOu can get rid of the GOTO statement to test them. Remember to close Notepad each time to ge it to move to the next non-START SHELL statement.


Pete