Thanks for all that replied.

A number of people told me that all I had to do was put an "exit"
command at the bat command.  Why would they tell me that?  Is "exit"
even a DOS command? In what context would that work?  All I ever got was
a big black DOS window with "exit" staring back at me.  Are they talking
NT?

Thanks to Ray Montgomery, Phil Hurvitz, Mark Greninger, Panomsak
Promburom, and Cameron Purnell for telling me how commmand.com /c
works.  I liked Mr. Purnell's script because it gives a solution that
works whether the OS is NT or Win98:

If (System.GetOSVariant = #SYSTEM_OSVARIANT_MSW95) Then
  comPath = "c:\windows\command.com /c "
ElseIf (System.GetOSVariant = #SYSTEM_OSVARIANT_MSWNT) Then
  comPath = "c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /c "
Else
  return "Error-Unknown system OS."
End
system.executeSynchronous(comPath+"File or command to run goes here")

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Cameron Purnell
Consultant
MITS (a Unit of Utility Services Corporation)
474 Flinders Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Australia
ph. +61 3 9613 7165
fax +61 3 9613 9500
email  cpurnell@mits.com.au

Now does any one know a way to make the bat file run without a DOS
window popping up at all?