SHELL Statement Programming Examples Example 1 The following example shows how a single SHELL statement starts up a new COMMAND.COM: SHELL 'Get a new COMMAND.COM. Sample Output The IBM Personal Computer DOS Version 3.20 (C)Copyright International Business Machines Corp 1981, 1986 (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981, 1986 D:\QB4> Example 2 SHELL_EX.BAS is a program file in the subdirectory ADVR_EX that illustrates the SHELL statement. To look at the program in the View window and, optionally, to run it, load the program using the File menu's Open Program command. The program copies all files modified on a certain date from a specified directory.