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From: timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler)
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Subject: Re: How may I automatically run a batch upon startup of DOS shell?
Keywords: batch file non-windows application
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Date: 5 Nov 90 20:20:21 GMT
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In article <1990Nov5.100924.27076@agate.berkeley.edu> c60c-3fz@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (In Sik Rhee) writes:
>Ok, here's the way to do it (tricky, but works)
>
>you're gonna create 2 batch files... in the first one, lets call it dos.bat,
>you type in the name of the second batch file (Don't CALL it, just execute
>it).  The second batch file is the one you will want to run... so for ex.
>
>DOS.BAT will have:
>	@echo off
>	go
>
>and GO.BAT will have what you want to do...  it'll give you a prompt after
>go.bat is finished...  I forget the exact reason why it does this, but it's
>gotta do something with having to "CALL" a batch file from within a batch
>file...  anyway, it works, so why complain :)

I tried this, and I can't get it to work.  I told the .PIF file to load
DOS.BAT, and then I tried loading COMMAND.COM /C DOS.BAT, and that didn't
work either.

In both cases, it opens and closes the DOS window.  And at 25Mhz, I can't
even see what it's doing!!!

Timur

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