mark lewis wrote to James Bradley, "Batch file" on 07-06-05 20:26

 ml> and to JEAN PARROT!!

What a great sport! I think that metric/imperial/nautical polar mount,
 connected to the RS232.... Might have turned him off the elegant
 simplicity of how this helps us.

 JB> And rightfully so, the batch file is just a way to offload the
 JB> tedium. The BBS you log into, is likely run by a bunch of batch
 JB> files. Once you can follow their flow and decision making, it can
 JB> be  very simple to understand.

 ml> it only takes time and a mind that can follow the dots ;)

Just don't bother with the docs!  "Direction??? We don need no
 stanking direction."

I showed some friends about running games without Windows overhead, and
 they'd be navigating via batch files... I wrote them my "e.bat" and
 "w.bat" and they were just pickled with delight!

That was W'95 though, so the allocation of resources were spotty at
 best at the time.

 JB> I know you aren't interested in being a terminal jockey, I was just
 JB> hoping to show how simple it can be. Believe me, if an idiot like
 JB> myself can toy around with it, a *cat* should be able to too. 
 JB> With the plug-and-go GUI, there is little need to understand it,
 JB> but  I still run BW from a batch file, just to take care of the
 JB> messy bits  of changing my location on the hard drive, and if I'm
 JB> at the CLI, I  just type "bw " and I'm in business.

 ml> FWIW: the above is why i'm really replying to this message
 ml> and hopeing that Jean will see it to...

 ml> you can create a .BAT file and put it in the properties of the shortcut
 ml> icon that you click on to run BW rather than opening a CLI and

And I too run my batch file, instead of the executable. Something
 about *knowing* you are where you think you are ....

My BBS doesn't like to recognize dupes. BW, or Multimail, I can dupe at
 a heartbeat. On an upload, Kevin was pokin' his nose in a wrong
 direction, and my mail hit the bucket. First time bitten, I tried to
 keep old mail re-sendable in the next bundle until I read a reply to
 what I sent. Long story short, (Too late, I know.) I was about to
 insert "if SUCCESS del gypsy.rep" in my script the day before. Maybe
 telemarketers *are* good for sompin?

 ml> typing it in manually... many of the programs i run are
 ml> actually executed from .BAT files that set up certain
 ml> things before firing up the desired program... the only
 ml> things that really need to be known are the full path and
 ml> name of the .BAT file and what contents you want in the .BAT file...

 ml> for example: instead of c:\bw\bw.exe
 ml>          you might have c:\belfry\loadbw.bat

 ml>          c:\belfry\loadbw.bat might contain the following...

 ml>          {at}echo off
 ml>          echo.
 ml>          echo saving old replies
 ml>          copy c:\upload\*.rep c:\bw\oldreps
 ml>          echo.
 ml>          echo loading BlueWave
 ml>          cd\bw
 ml>          bw
 ml>          echo.
 ml>          echo exiting bw and closing down
 ml>          exit


 ml> hope this helps...

 ml> )\/(ark


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