Ben Carpenter wrote to Ken Hrynchuk on 02-10-03 15:19:
 
 -=> Quoting Ken Hrynchuk to Ben Carpenter <=-
 
 KH> I have a long-standing annoyance, when running .BAT files from .PIFs
 KH> in Win9x. Sometimes, after completion of the batch, Win will show this:
 KH>
 KH> "Your pop-up program is ready to run. When you have finished using
 KH> it, press Ctrl+C to close this window and return to Windows."
 KH>
 KH> I've tried everything I can think of (.PIF settings, .BAT tricks) to
 KH> prevent the above from occurring; does anyone know how to stop it?
 KH>
 
 BC>  I just thought of something else.  Some time back I begin having
 BC>  trouble with a batch file (not the same thing you were having) but
 BC> it
 BC>  turned out to be that I had an unprintable character in the batch
 BC> file.
 BC>  It looked like a space but it was some kind of character that did
 BC> not
 BC>  print but it caused problems in the batch file not behaving as it
 BC>  should.
 
 BC>  I ended up rewriting the batch from scratch and the trouble went
 BC> away
 BC>  so started looking at the old file with a hexdec editor and found
 BC> the
 BC>  bad character.  Deleted it and then the batch would behave.
 
Good thought, Ben; thanks again. I just went through it with a
fine-toothed comb, (of the HIEW variety) and everything was ok.
Still a mystery.
 
   Ken
 
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