Mail Archives: opendos/2002/01/02/10:51:07
Hi! I consider myself something of a wizard with batch files, so email
me a copy o the program in question, and I'll look it over and get back
to you.
~ Denise ~
DONALD PEDDER wrote:
> I wrote a batch file to call several programs (this is with MS-DOS, as
>that is what is on the computer I'm using it on - I don't have DR-DOS on
>it yet). For some reason the batch-file ceases to execute after the first
>program has run, which kinda defeats the purpose of it. :-)
>
There are some magic tricks involved, here = )
>There is a xcopy before the first program call, which works, so the
>file works as far down as calling the first program, but then doesn't have
>control returned to it when the program is finished - anyone know why this
>is?
>
It it is iterative, or recursive, (calls another batch file) a new,
temporary copy of command.com is loaded for each instance,and batch
files are not, ordinarily, recursive, and fall out to the dos prompt
after one call.
> The program is one I wrote myself in Pascal which deletes columns from
>a file (having learnt about computers on a mainframe, I was pretty
>frustrated to discover PC editors didn't have column operations - I've
>written a few editor extensions :-) ).
>
Of course they do! Timo Salmi (a well-known C&IS professor in Finland)
wrote scads of them in the 80's and early 90's. I'll look to see what I
have, and let you know. Also, the older versions of QEdit also handle
column operations, a la Wordstar commands.
~ Denise ~
>regards,
> dp.
>
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