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Worked it out - used tasklist to find running tasks.

Hi, I have a script that opens a secondary dos window. The script has an exit sequence to exit that program and close the secondary window. I run in to a problem if the user closes the window with the X button on the second window and the rest of my main program does not move on unless I ctrl-C in t...

Thought I'd post an update on this solution.

I tried the solution and it works perfectly. In fact it has solved a major problem I was having with my script and opens up other opportunities from my program that I didn't think were possible.

So a big thank you for this fix.

I think that may just do the trick - thank you.

I was trying the Delayed Variable option - but could see how it worked.

Thanks so much for this - and the quick reply.

I'm trying to replace some character in a environment variable. The Variable comes from an entry in a text file the has $ symbol, e.g. $varb1$/$varb2$/some text I want to replace the $ with a % sign as this will then be used to identify some preconfigured environment variables of the same name, e.g....