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From: dahosek@biivax.dp.beckman.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Batch Files
Message-ID: <1991May23.104516.325@biivax.dp.beckman.com>
Date: 23 May 91 17:45:16 GMT
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In article <49377@ut-emx.uucp>, migdol@emx.utexas.edu (Michael A. Migdol) writes:
> I'll probably get told to RTFM on this one, but here goes, anyways: Does
> MS-DOS read a batch file as it's running from disk, or does it load it all
> into memory at the beginning? In other words, if I have an autoexec.bat file
> that loads in a new autoexec.bat file, It will try to start running the 2nd
> file, right?

It reads the file as it goes. If a batch file modifies itself as
it executes, I have no idea what happens.

-dh

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