Run a bat file from lisp?

I have a MS dos bat file that I run via lisp with the startapp.
I am running windows 2000 professional.
I have created a shortcut (pif file) for the bat.
I have tried repeatedly to set up the bat so that it runs minimized without success.
The properties dialog of the file has tabs as follows:
General, Shortcut, Options, Font, Layout, and Colors
The Shortcut tab has a Run option with choices:
Normal window, Minimized, Maximized. But the Options tab has display options: Window and Full Screen. But no option to run minimized. This is contradictory.

What am I missing?

 

Question?

if the batch file representing only dos commando's you
could find the solution to do it
with the DOSlib from mcneel they are great

there also many dos command available in Vlisp
like
vl-file-copy
vl-file-delete
vl-mkdir
vl-file-rename

Hope this help's

 

maybe it helps
(command "_shell" "mybat")

mfg

 

Actually, DOSLib has a direct execute function to do exactly what is
requested:

ex. (dos_execute "C:\\test.bat" 2); runs test.bat minimized