SHELL Function
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 Action

 Returns an integer value that is the OS-2 process ID for the shelled
 process.


 Syntax



  SHELL( commandstring$)

 Remarks


 The argument  commandstring$ is the name of the OS-2 process to be executed,
 along with any command-line arguments that the executed process requires.
 The command string is required.

 The  SHELL function is used only under OS-2 protected mode.

 Like the  SHELL statement, the OS-2 protected-mode  SHELL function permits a
 BASIC program to execute another process. In addition, the  SHELL function
 allows the BASIC program to continue execution without waiting for the child
 process to terminate, and returns the process ID of the child process. The
 process ID is used by some of the OS-2 API functions (which can be called
 from BASIC).


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