Re: Running DOS and Batch Programs on XP

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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:41:16 -0400, John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It's pretty hard to see what is in your batch file from here...

John

Sorry, I didn't include it because I thought that there might possibly be
some generic issue with what I am doing that I wasn't aware of.

Anyway, it is embarrassingly simple, but I wanted to keep it as clean as
possible until I got something to work. Here it is:

REM For calling Webster Thesaurus directly from the command line
echo Begin Webster.bat
cd\
pause
cd\Webster
pause
wthpro.exe
pause
cd\
pause

Actually I was wrong earlier when I said that it blipped right through the
application without stopping. (Sorry, I've made so many variations of this
*.bat file that I got mixed up.)

Anyway, it actually does make it into wthpro.exe. But, when run manually,
it then expects an <ALT-F10> key entry to get started. When run via batch
however, it won't accept this <ALT-F10> entered manually.

Perhaps the question that I should have originally asked is, "is there any
way to enter <ALT-F10> as part of the *.bat stream??" But somehow, it
feels like something else must be wrong.

BTW, please don't jump on me because the program is installed on the C:\
directory. I don't like it either, but the program is so primitive that
that is where it wants to be.

Thanks again,
David
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