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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: batch files calling batch files
Message-ID: <1651@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 15:35:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.1651
Posted: Sun May  3 15:35:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 3-May-87 23:36:44 EDT
References: <626@cod.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Mr. Video's Hangout
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In article <626@cod.UUCP> rupp@cod.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
<Some while back there was a discussion of how to write a batch file that
<would call other batch files and then return control to the original
<batchfile (Sorry, this *is* confusing.).  Anyway, I did not save any
<of the postings on the subject.  Now it seems a local user would like to
<do this.  Can someone shoot me an explanation of how this trick is
<accomplished?  I would appreciate it.

PC-DOS 3.30 now supports a batch command called CALL.  After call is
done, control is returned to the calling batch program.

I have not tested PC-DOS 3.21 to see if CALL is there already.  Who knows,
maybe it is there and is one of the unsupported commands.
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