Thanks for the help, I have it all working now. I am running Kix from a Window's shortcut (no batch file) and to get the script to pause I am using your Start /wait suggestion, it is working as well. I had to change the format of the command to get it to work though.

Instead of:
SHELL "Start $RUNPROGRAM /wait"
(which didn't work)

I rearranged it to
SHELL "Start /wait $RUNPROGRAM"

The Start command wasn't seeing the /wait option, I guess. Thanks again for your help, consider this issue solved.

Don