Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!erick
From: erick@sunee.waterloo.edu (Erick Engelke)
Subject: Re: Batch Files
Message-ID: <1991May23.214550.16647@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <49377@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 21:45:50 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?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>

It will once again open the file, seek to the position assumed to be the
next line and try to read the command.  If you wish to change the batch
file, make certain you change it AFTER your current position or else you
start getting problems.

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