Subj : BAT Files
To : mark lewis
From : Dan Ceppa
Date : Wed Sep 01 2004 01:27 pm
On 31 Aug 04 07:04:14, mark lewis got back to Dan Ceppa
-> Re: BAT Files
DC> How do you use a BAT file to be able to load a
DC> program and then do something else?
ml> that depends on the OS being run...
It's in DOS under WIN98
ml> generally speaking, you'd use some sort of "start" command or utility
ml> to fire up the additional items... however, this means that the OS
ml> must be multitasking already...
The program I'm loading works as a TSR. Once it's loaded, I
can run regular programs from the DOS prompt.
DC> IOW, I've got a bat file that loads Switcher. However, the
DC> bat file won't do anything else until I uninstall Switcher.
DC> Only then does it run the other commands/programs I want
DC> to run. (Which is too late!)
ml> if switcher is the "multitasker", then i don't know that you can do
ml> what you are wanting... are you wanting the other items to be started
ml> from within switcher or in addition to switcher? if in addition to,
ml> then the OS is already multitasking and switcher isn't needed, is it?
ml> or am i misunderstanding switcher?
Switcher does like it sounds. I can run a program and freeze it
on the page I'm in. It then allows me to open a separate DOS
section and run another program. I can do that 7 or 8 times,
leaving any of the porgrams on the place I left it. It's great
for cut and paste in DOS mode.
... QWK? I don't need no stinkin' QWK packet!
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