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Re: Synchronising VB with a shelled Word Perfect macro

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From: Jens Balchen Jr.
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <48o83b$8e5@soap.news.pipex.net>, gil@dial.pipex.com (Gil
Murray) wrote:

>I'm trying to shell a Word Perfect macro from Visual Basic, then hold
>VB back from further execution until the macro has completed:

>X% = Shell("d:\office\wpwin\wpwin.exe /m-a:path.wcm",2)
>Templatefile$ = "c:\windows\path.tmp"      'the macro will create this
>   Do Until FileExists(Templatefile$)

DoEvents

>   Loop

Jens
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Jens Balchen jr.
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From: balchen@oslonett.no (Jens Balchen Jr.)
Subject: Re: Synchronising VB with a shelled Word Perfect macro
Date: 1995/11/20
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