"Shell" is a Microsoft Access Function. The following is quoted exactly from the Help facility from within Access. You can refer to it for any further usage instructions or clarification.
From Microsoft Access Help utility, and I quote:
Runs an executable program and returns a...
Being an old "DOS" guy, I first wrote a simple batch file, named it "backup.bat" and put only one line into it:
copy s:\access.mdb s:\access_backup\access.mdb
Simply translated, I'm copying an access database from the network "S" drive to a backup subdirectory on...
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