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Shalini Shikha
October 8th, 1999, 08:55 PM
I am developing a program in VB which needs to execute some Fortran routines (which are already compiled in the .exe file) when the user clicks a particular command button. How do I do this?

Aaron Young
October 8th, 1999, 09:13 PM
Try:

Call Shell("Fortran.exe", vbNormalFocus)

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