Subj : BAT Files
To : Dan Ceppa
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Sep 01 2004 03:20 pm
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...
DC> It's in DOS under WIN98
'k...
ml>> generally speaking, you'd use some sort of "start"
ml>> command or utility to fire up the additional items...
ml>> however, this means that the OS must be multitasking
ml>> already...
DC> The program I'm loading works as a TSR. Once it's
DC> loaded, I can run regular programs from the DOS prompt.
you can't open more than one windowed DOS prompt and run whatever? i do it here
all the time and cut and paste to/from them with ease...
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
ml>> you can do what you are wanting... are you wanting the
ml>> other items to be started from within switcher or in
ml>> addition to switcher? if in addition to, then the OS is
ml>> already multitasking and switcher isn't needed, is it?
ml>> or am i misunderstanding switcher?
DC> Switcher does like it sounds. I can run a program and freeze
DC> it on the page I'm in. It then allows me to open a separate
DC> DOS section and run another program. I can do that 7 or 8
DC> times, leaving any of the porgrams on the place I left it.
DC> It's great for cut and paste in DOS mode.
i honestly don't see how you can do what you are trying to do unless switcher
has some sort of autoexec capability to fire up the other programs you want to
run... then again, i fail to see a need for switcher in the first place since
you are running in DOS tasks under Win98... the machine i'm currently on has a
dozen or more DOS windows open as well as i don't know how many windows
programs... as i need a DOS window, i just open another one...
