Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 12:10:00 +0100 From: Matthias Paul Subject: Re: opendos and task manager To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <4CD4C283039@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 Travis Siegel wrote: > I can do all of this manually without any trouble at all, but I need to > start each session myself, and I'd just like some way to automate this > process, just in case it needs done when I'm not near the keyboard. > There, that's the whole of it, if anyone can offer suggestions, I'd > appriciate it very much. I cannot comment on your specific use, but as long as Exec=FALSE in TASKMGR.INI, starting new tasks of the multitasking TASKMGR is as easy as writing a batchjob using the "TASKMGR /C command" syntax, whereby command can be a batchjob itself. If you have trouble with the shell, try "TASKMGR /C %ComSpec% /C command". Using Exec=TRUE (e.g. for 4DOS) makes things more complicated, as the initial TASKMGR call will not return to the calling batchjob as long as you do not quit all the running tasks. Improving this is one of my long-time suggestions to Caldera. Anyway, developing my (unfinished) "JOBMGR" extension to TASKMGR I was able to work around these problems using "semaphor" files on disk and 4START.BTM jobs etc. Please ask me privately if I should sent these batchjobs to you. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Caldera Digital Research Systems/OpenLinux: http://www.caldera.com/