SQL*Plus / Windows NT / host commands

[Quoted]         Hi. I'm running Oracle Workgroup Server 7.3 on NT 4.0 and using [Quoted] SQL*Plus 3.3. I have in a script to automate backups a line, 'host zip [zipfile] [datafile]'. This should compress the database file into the zipfile. So what happens is the zip command runs in the background, control returns to SQL*Plus, and the script takes the tablespace out of backup mode. So how do I get it to wait for the zip to complete?

Thanks much,

	Ken Geis
	kgeis_at_ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu