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From:	Georg <dosusb AT googlemail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: System()
Date:	Mon, 28 May 2012 13:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 18, 6:35 am, Jason Hood <jad DOT  DOT  DOT  AT yahoo DOT com DOT au> wrote:
> On 11/05/2012 22:07, Georg wrote:
>
> > Thank you Jason! I assume I could also write the line to execute into
> > an environment variable [setenv("doit", "notepad", 1);] and call that
>
> No, that won't work, as the environment is local to the process - once
> your manager exits, the variable is lost.  Your manager has to write
> the actual batch file.  Let's say your manager is called "manager.exe",
> you start it with "go.bat" and the program to run is "run.bat".
>
> go.bat:
> @echo off
> ::start the file manager
> manager
> :loop
> ::if the manager didn't create a file, it exited
> if not exist run.bat goto eof
> call run.bat
> del run.bat
> ::run the manager again, but let it know it's returning from a program
> manager -restart
> goto loop
> :eof
>
> run.bat:
> ::whatever program was selected by the manager
> @notepad
> ::one problem with this technique is having to take care of arguments
> ::in particular, you have to double up percent signs
>
> --
> Jason.

Thank you, Georg

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