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From: bill@hpcvlo.HP.COM (Bill Frolik)
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Subject: Re: batch files calling batch files
Message-ID: <1610013@hpcvlo.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 11:02:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 11:02:14 1987
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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To call another batch file from within a batch file, just invoke another
copy of COMMAND.COM with a /C switch:

	...
	echo This batch file calls "whatever.bat"
	command /c whatever.bat arg1 arg2 arg3 ...
	echo We return to here
	...

Be aware that since you are invoking a new command interpreter, the called
batch file will live in a new "environment" (i.e., any variables that you
have SET will not exist to the called file, and any variables that it SETs
will disappear when control returns to the caller).

DOS 3.3 has a new CALL command that lets you do batch file calling without
having to do "command /c".

Bill Frolik
hp-pcd!bill
Hewlett-Packard Portable Computer Division
Corvallis, Oregon