DC>> How do you use a BAT file to be able to load a
 DC>> program and then do something else?

 ml>> that depends on the OS being run...

 DC> It's in DOS under WIN98

'k...

 ml>> generally speaking, you'd use some sort of "start"
 ml>> command or utility to fire up the additional items...
 ml>> however, this means that the OS must be multitasking
 ml>> already...

 DC> The program I'm loading works as a TSR.  Once it's
 DC> loaded, I can run regular programs from the DOS prompt.

you can't open more than one windowed DOS prompt and run whatever? i do it
here all the time and cut and paste to/from them with ease...

 DC>> IOW, I've got a bat file that loads Switcher.  However, the
 DC>> bat file won't do anything else until I uninstall Switcher.
 DC>> Only then does it run the other commands/programs I want
 DC>> to run.  (Which is too late!)

 ml>> if switcher is the "multitasker", then i don't know that
 ml>> you can do what you are wanting... are you wanting the
 ml>> other items to be started from within switcher or in
 ml>> addition to switcher? if in addition to, then the OS is
 ml>> already multitasking and switcher isn't needed, is it?
 ml>> or am i misunderstanding switcher?

 DC> Switcher does like it sounds.  I can run a program and freeze
 DC> it on the page I'm in.  It then allows me to open a separate
 DC> DOS section and run another program.  I can do that 7 or 8
 DC> times, leaving any of the porgrams on the place I left it.
 DC> It's great for cut and paste in DOS mode.

i honestly don't see how you can do what you are trying to do unless
switcher has some sort of autoexec capability to fire up the other programs
you want to run... then again, i fail to see a need for switcher in the
first place since you are running in DOS tasks under Win98... the machine
i'm currently on has a dozen or more DOS windows open as well as i don't
know how many windows programs... as i need a DOS window, i just open
another one...

)\/(ark