Subj : BAT Files
To   : Jon Watson
From : Dan Ceppa
Date : Thu Sep 02 2004 02:05 pm

On 01 Sep 04  11:36:00, Jon Watson got back to Mark Lewis 
-> Re: BAT Files

 JW> I think that's the point...he's asking about how to do this in a BAT
 JW> file so  I assume he's not going to be there to open new windows as he
 JW> needs them. 
 JW> I always thought that the 'call' command in batch files was the way to
 JW> go.  I'm not sure, but I thought that if you just named a program or
 JW> bat file from  within a bat file, then the calling bat file would
 JW> terminate and the system  wouldn't return to it after running whatever
 JW> program was called. I thought  that the "call progam_name" would cause
 JW> the system to execute that program,  then return to the calling bat
 JW> file and execute the remainder of the  commands.

 JW> I don't know if that helps, Dan, but it might...

I tried adding [call sw.bat] and it almost worked!   I got 
a Nesting Error.  I think there needs to be a command after 
that...  


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