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From: cpa@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Christopher P Avram)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Recursive Windows
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Date: 15 Jan 91 13:06:13 GMT
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In article <11057@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV writes:
>In article <91014.153634YTHPRGDB@MTUS5.BITNET>, YTHPRGDB@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
>|>Is there any nice way to prevent your users from recursively running windows?
>|>...  of Windows.  The computer runs SO slow it's unbearable.
>
>Create the batch file WIN.BAT:
>------------------------------
>echo off
>...
>:exit
>Brad Hines

I have had this problem with other menu programs in another life.
The solution then was to write a bat file, a simpler one than Brad's.

The Dos EXIT command is a no-operation to the root level command.com
shell. So just after you boot EXIT does nothing. But in a command.com
shell started by Windows, the EXIT command will terminate the shell
and return you to windows. You can use this. Write a batch file with 
EXIT as the first command, then start windows with the second command.

eg:
File:w3.bat

@Echo off
exit
win

Chris Avram
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