How to stop command window from closing?

[BillyKrow]

With prior versions of windows there used to be a "close on exit" option you could toggle on command (DOS) windows. This option seems to no longer exist in XP. I have a batch file that is running a java application and it appears to be erroring out periodically. The only problem is, the window closes immediately and therefore I can't see any exceptions that may have been thrown. Any ideas how to force the window to stay open? I suppose I could redirect the output to a file for now.

 

[jrbarnett]

Put the line

pause

at the bottom of the batch file. This will cause a "Press any key to continue..." message to appear.

John

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
You could add error trapping code that jumps to a Pause command..That should keep the window open.






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[BillyKrow]

Pause, why didn't I think of that. That should do the trick. Thanks!