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 Suspends execution of a Visual Basic program, runs a .COM, .EXE, or .BAT
 program, or an MS-DOS command, and resumes execution of the Visual Basic
 program at the statement following the SHELL statement.
 
    SHELL [commandstring$]
 
    ■ commandstring$    Name of a program or executable file