.bat file question: how to get DOS box to close

You might try placing an "EXIT" statement as the last line of the bat file Good Luck
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tried that, but it still leaves the window open on 98 machines.

Hunh, you are right.

On 9x on the desktop Icon i guess you have to click on

Properties > program > Close on Exit







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Duh, I knew this....

Prefix the DOS command with, e.g. to do DoIt

command /c doit.....

which ought to spawn a temporary DOS VM.

You might have to provide path information for "Command", look for Command.com.

NT/2000 might not be the same.



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If you want to make the Batch File close on the end of its processing, you use the command "cls" at the very end. That will make it close after it is done. Make sure there are no commands after the cls function.

I'm using a batch file to compare the version of a database on the server to the version on the local PC and copy it over if necessary. The batch file then launches the database application of the local PC but the DOS window forces my application to use only the lower half of my screen. This still happens even though I have the DOS prompt running minimized. Does anybody have a fix?

I've tried putting cls as the last line. I've tried exit as the last line. I've tried various connotations of doit. But the window will not close until I close my database application. Okay, I can live with that but why is it scrunching up my database window? Ann

Well, if you don't need to look at the BAT file doing it's thing, it can be run so that it does not open a visible DOS window at all.

I know when I shell a BAT file from a VB program, that if I use the vbHide paremeter it will not display the DOS window as the BAT file runs.

I think your solution is in how the BAT file is lanched, and if there is a command line parameter that can be added to make it execute invisibly. Unfortunatly, I can't remember what the DOS command would be for that....

Robert

I really don't want to run the batch file from within my application 'cause I don't want to open the app until the newer version is copied if needed.

I just can't seem to figure this one out. Guess what I'll do is let my users open the front end using my target and send them a desktop icon to run the batch file after I post a new design on the server. Oh, well...

Thanks for your input. Ann