Re: start with /wait and /b together

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"jan_bar" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I want to start command line tool from a batch, keep the same command
window
and wait for it at the same time. Sample:

start "test" /low /wait /b "path\to\some\command\line\tool.exe"

The problem is, that /wait and /b doesn't work together. When the /b is
specified, the /wait is ignored - and any Ctrl-C will nto reach the
running
tool.exe. How can I solve this?
In fact, I just want to start the tool.exe with lower priority, start /low
seems to be the cheapest way.

Thanks, Jan



So what you would want to do is

* set lower priority
* execute TOOL
* restore original priority

the problem being that a tool to set the priority from the command line
isn't supplied by Uncle Bill, and isn't an option in TASKMANAGER which is
dumbly clicky-clicky?

* beyondlogic.org has a freeware program that is claimed set priority of a
process. Google "command line change task priority"

-------------------

Perhaps you could split the batch into two, as the last command of the first
half "start" a new batchfile with LOW priority, containing just two lines:

TOOL
start /originalpriority secondpartoforiginalbatchfile



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