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wshshell.run a shortcut and waiting for it to finish. How ?

From	"R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject	wshshell.run a shortcut and waiting for it to finish. How ?
Date	2020-11-15 09:14 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<roqo1t$1kg1$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)

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Hello all,

I'm trying to run a program or script thru a shortcut and wait for it to 
finish (this last bit is crucial).  However, I get an "WshShell.Run: Unable 
to wait for process." error.

My question therefore is : How do I run a shortcut and wait for its target 
to finish ?    Is there a better-suited command available perhaps ?

Targetted OS: XPsp3.

... just thought of something: extracting the target (and possibly 
arguments) from the shortcut myself.   Do I really have to do that ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

P.s.
Remarkable how few results you get googeling or DDG-ing for the above error 
message including the doublequotes followed by the word "shortcut".   Or how 
few results, let alone relevant ones, you get when searching for just the 
error message ...

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