Subj : BAT Files
To   : Dan Ceppa
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Aug 31 2004 12:04 pm

 DC> This is kinda related to here...

just barely ;)

 DC> How do you use a BAT file to be able to load a
 DC> program and then do something else?

that depends on the OS being run...

generally speaking, you'd use some sort of "start" command or utility to fire 
up the additional items... however, this means that the OS must be multitasking 
already...

 DC> IOW, I've got a bat file that loads Switcher.  However, the
 DC> bat file won't do anything else until I uninstall Switcher.
 DC> Only then does it run the other commands/programs I want
 DC> to run.  (Whcih is too late!)

if switcher is the "multitasker", then i don't know that you can do what you 
are wanting... are you wanting the other items to be started from within 
switcher or in addition to switcher? if in addition to, then the OS is already 
multitasking and switcher isn't needed, is it? or am i misunderstanding 
switcher?

an example:

@echo off
dothis
dothat
start something
start somethingelse
start thecar


in the above, dothis will run and the bat will wait till it finishes... then it 
will run dothat and wait for it to finish... the other three will all be fired 
up at the same time to run seperately...

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