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From: fritz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How may I automatically run a batch upon startup of DOS shell?
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.144909.1179@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 15 Nov 90 13:49:08 GMT
References: <KERCE.90Nov4123453@nu.cs.fsu.edu> <1990Nov5.100924.27076@agate.berkeley.edu> <2310@sparko.gwu.edu>
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In article <2310@sparko.gwu.edu>, timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler) writes:
> 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!!!
> 
The problem with the /C qualifier of COMMAND.COM is that immediately
after execution of the command line specified after /C the COMMAND shell
is closed and you're back in your WINDOWS environment.
Nevertheless you can use the whole thing very well. Here is an example
how I use it:

I run emTeX as a DOS application. I need to have extended environment
memory because I need to set some variables (%TEXINPUT% etc...).

So I write in the .pif file: COMMAND /E:512 /C emtex.bat

The EMTEX.BAT itself contains the following lines:

@echo off
call set-tex.bat                  (* sets all the variables *)
ncsmall


When I execute the .pif file it calls emtex.bat and emtex.bat calls
the Norton Commander, which is very convenient when you want to 
work with emTeX. When I leave ncsmall (F10) I return immediately
to windows because now the emtex.bat is "over".

I hope someone can use this rather complicated procedure too.

Good luck.

		Oliver Fritz, University of Basel, Switzerland