Re: Launching Multiple Programs From A Command Prompt Script

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From: WorldNet User (WorldNetUser_at_att.net)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 04:05:42 GMT

Yes, that worked. Thanks. The trick seemed to be to add the extra sets of
quotes "" before the quotes containing the actual executable name, and I am
curious to know why those extra ones make it work. When I did not have
those extra quotes, it did not work.

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OJu2w#RmEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I do not have any of these programs. It worked with three I do have.
> Try this.............
>
> start "" "C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe"
> start "" "C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YPager.exe"
> start "" "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe"
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
> Wes
>
> In news:GT01d.353859$OB3.290326@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net,
> WorldNet User <WorldNetUser@att.net> hunted and pecked:
> > I would like to launch multiple programs from a command prompt script
> > (in Windows XP Home Edition). For example, I have three instant
> > messenger programs and want to launch them all from a script called
> > im.bat.
> >
> > So I put the following three lines into IM.bat, but launching it this
> > way, the script will not execute the second line until the first
> > program is closed.
> >
> > "C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe"
> > "C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YPager.exe"
> > "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe"
> >
> > I tried putting start at the beginning of each line, but with that
> > variant, none of the three programs executed.
> >
> > What needs to be done to fix this script?

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