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From: ahegde@mipos2.intel.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: pause in autoexec file
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Date: 13 Oct 90 03:08:08 GMT
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> From: Thomson_PW@cc.curtin.edu.au
> Subject: Autoexec.bat prob: take two

> I have set up my computer to load straight up into Windows 3
> from my autoexec.bat file. However somtimes I just want to load
> xtree to do some copying/moving. 

> I saw once a programme which was called from the autoexec.bat file 
> which loaded for a few seconds then finished and let the batch file
> continue on. This was to give the user time enough to do a <ctrl> c
> to stop the batch file.

> Has anyone seen a programme similar to this ?


If i understand your question correctly, can't you do this with a 
PAUSE statement in your autoexec.bat just before invoking windows ?

anoop hegde		ahegde@mipos2.intel.com