Subj : Windows 2000 and legacy programs
To   : Steven Horn
From : Dale Ross
Date : Fri Feb 23 2001 02:04 am

OK here is a suggestion. Run everything from command.com NOT CMD.EXE. That 
means that you should start timED from command.com and not cmd.exe. In the bat 
file that you run timED from put the following line at the very top of your bat 
file.

command.com

This will force everything to run from command.com the real DOS command 
processor and not CMD.exe.

Second question. Is Squish in D:\Binkley directory? If not is Squish defined in 
any path? You have two choices with Windows NT/Windows 2000 for defining your 
paths. In Windows 2000 you can:

Right Mouse Click "My Computer"
Choose "Properties"
Choose "Advanced"
Choose "Environment Variables"
Set your path.

However, these statements will not be good when you launch command.com!!!

For that you have file in \WINNT\SYSTEM32 called autoexec.nt

Go into this file and add your path statements. If you want a custom 
autoexec.nt file you can have it.

For example, maybe you want one just for you BBS. Call it autoexec.bbs Create a 
shortcut to the main bat file and in that shortcut under "Program" \ "Advanced" 
point to this file.

Any reason you are using DOS Binkley instead of Windows NT version? I'd suggest 
Binkley/XE. I was running it before switching to Argus. I never had problems 
with it handling errorlevel.

Dale

SH> Hello Dale,
SH>
SH> On <Thu, 22 Feb 01>, you wrote me:
SH>
 DR>> Can we get a look at your batch files?
SH>
SH> Here is a typical one:
SH>
SH> @echo off
SH> @rem batch file for use with timEd message editor
SH> d:
SH> cd d:\binkley
SH> timed
SH> if errorlevel 5 goto end
SH> if errorlevel 3 goto export
SH> if errorlevel 2 goto export
SH> if errorlevel 1 goto pack
SH> if errorlevel 0 goto end
SH>
SH> :export
SH>   d:
SH>   cd d:\binkley
SH>   sq386 out squash -fd:\fidomail\msg\areas.lst
SH>   goto end
SH>
SH> :pack
SH>   d:
SH>   cd d:\binkley
SH>   sq386 squash
SH>   goto end
SH>
SH> :end
SH>   del d:\fidomail\msg\areas.lst
SH>   cd\
SH>   exit
SH> ______________
SH>
SH> I hope that is helpful.  It worked under Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and 98SE.   It 
stopped working under 2000. :-(
SH>
SH> Take care,
SH>
SH> Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.ca)
SH> Moderator, Alaska_Chat and CAN_SYSLAW
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