Shell open telnet in VB6

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Running VB6 SP6 on Windows 10, 64 bit.

I'm trying to script a telnet session from VB.

I open telnet to an address and port as follows:

telnetpath = "telnet 192.168.0.91 9999"

Shell telnetpath, vbNormalFocus

This works when the program is executed from within the VB IDE, but it doesn't work in the compiled code. I get an error saying that it can't find the telnet program.

I know telnet is enabled, as I can open a session from a command window. Also, this worked in Windows XP, but not on Windows 10.

I tried to make a batch file to do this and shell to the batch from my program, but the result is the same; it works if I execute the batch from a command window or the VB IDE, but not if I call the batch from compiled VB. Something tells me this is related to 64/32 bit, but don't know how to overcome it.

Joe

What I have tried:

Shell, Shellexecute, cmd, batch