is there a way to have the run command pause execution of a script untill it is done processing? What i'm trying to do is this: I have a script that unzips a file and then reads values from one of the files inside the zip file. I'm using good old pkzip for dos to accomplish this. I can't/don't want to use a while loop to delay it, because i do plan on releasing this script, and everyones computers aren't the same, so that would accomplish nothing. I'm fairly certain there is no way around this, but i am asking just in case...