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From: baird@cod.UUCP (John M. Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Nested Batch Files Under MS-DOS
Message-ID: <830@cod.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 14:16:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: cod.830
Posted: Fri Sep 18 14:16:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 04:03:14 EDT
References: <874@cg-atla.UUCP>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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in article <874@cg-atla.UUCP>, harty@cg-atla.UUCP (Kevin Harty) says:
> I wish to execute a batch file from within a for loop of another file.
>>    f00.bat
>>         for %%1 %%2 %%3 in (*.plt) do ( f001.bat)
>      The problem is that f001.bat is executed once and  does
> not  return  to  f00.bat.  

Try
      f00.bat
           for %%1 %%2 %%3 in (*.plt) do (command /c f001)
instead. This is standard DOS and should work.

John Baird