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

de DevilsPGD 05/13/2006 11:32

In message <Xns97C27FC0B9955howardbcaliforniacom@38.119.71.210> Howard
Schwartz <howardbschwartz4@yahoo.com> wrote:

>hummingbird <OPRBMDQMZNLV@spammotel.com> wrote in
>news:9ou962to84gvurj95jvr8abc4fuc80p63s@4ax.com:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>Why does this work? I usually get this message, when my program IS a batch
>file, itself - not an exe or com executable. My batch file might have
>an interactive program containing a pop-up, such as acd (enhanced change
>directory). So a pop up screen lets me pick a director, and then acd goes
>thee, the pop up screen vanishes, and I get the Ctrl-C message.
>
>Command.com /c would start a subshell and then immediately close it, and
>would do so at the start of my batch file. What good will this do, if the
>offending program accurs later in my batch file?
>
>This command.com /c does not work anyway. I have tried it.

IIRC, the default PIF for command.com doesn't have this popup, the
default PIF for some other types (batch files, for example) does...

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