coquelicot Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 hello,I have Windows XP system. I have written dos batches to easily callprograms such as yap.exe and to perform some tasks, but when Icall such a program, MSDOS wait until I close the window of this program to continue interpreting the commands. On Windows Millenium, this wasn' t the case when I used the same programs. What this can be? thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 WELCOME to the forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 Post your batch file, let's take a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 I don't pretend to know much about this, because I don't. But it looks to me as if the call syntax is slightly different with XP... or at least there is a bit more to it!! :huh: see hereIf I'm talking a load of rubbish, (which I probably am) then please excuse me :) Perhaps someone else may be able to shed a bit of light on the subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 Being a non XP person I am less able than most on this site to help, but if forced into a corner I would see if there is some connection with the autoexec.bat file in XP being different to your previous OS. I would look to see what is entered under 'path' , because, as you may know, this tells the OS where to go. Much as most people would like to do with M$ and Gates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Smith Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 Instead of having the entry...yap.exe... in your batch file use...start yap.exe... commands following it will then be processed without waiting for yap to end.Using...start /WAIT yap.exe... would cause the batch file to wait until yap.exe had finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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