KE>   I had a budy ask me if I knew how to have 4DOS shut down when it
KE> gets done with a job but I did not know how to do it since I only      
KE> fire it up 1 time, how do you do that & does it have to be a           
KE> registered version?                                                    

The exit command will "shut down" 4dos (unless it was started with the /p
option)

or you can do it this way

 4dos /c sometask
or
 4dos /c sometask^some other task^yet another
etc.

and 4dos will automatically shout down after the task(s) are done.
                        

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