Re: ``Your Pop-Up Program is Ready''

de hummingbird 05/12/2006 11:17

On Fri, 12 May 2006 22:15:18 +0100 'hummingbird'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:

>On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:29:13 -0500 'Howard Schwartz'
>posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>
>>This starts the infamous message one reads when a dos box does not close,
>>and requires you to hit Ctrl-C to close the window.
>>
>>The MS knowledge base tells you this happens, when windows detects an
>>operation like direct disk writes that it believes is associated with
>>a dos TSR program. It then sets a flag, stops taking input from the
>>dos windows, and requires the Ctrl-C from your keyboard to close
>>the window.
>>
>>The recommended workaround is to create a batch file containing:
>>
>> command.com /C
>>
>>And type the name of this file in the ``batch file'' field of a pif or
>>shortcut tab (which one sees by choosing Properties). This does not
>>work for me, and I never really understood how the separate fields of
>>``command line'' and ``batch file'' of a shortcut function. Is the
>>batch file run, prior to the command, to provide a specific dos environment
>>or some special variables for the command? In what order are these two
>>run?
>
>IIRC there is a place in PIF to enter a program path to run before
>the PIF DOS proggy is run. You should enter the batch path/name there.
>
>Then, when you run the PIF, the batch will be run first before the
>DOS program and 'command.com /c' will be active.
>
>A better place to ask this question is NG "alt.msdos" - there's some
>real DOS experts thereabouts.

An alternative is to create a batch file to start the DOS proggy and
enter "command.com /c" (w/o the quotes) on a line on its own before
the DOS program.