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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 15:50:58 +0000
From: Denise L Yenko <dlyenko AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: on a related note
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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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