Yes.

See for example Not quite everything you wanted to know about RUN and SHELL or the SHELLCMD() - Executes a shell command UDF.

You need to force thew SHELL to wait for the called application to finish before returning control back to KiXtart. Thus, you force it with SHELL '%COMSPEC% /e:1024 /c START /MIN /WAIT '+$appcommand
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There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.