CJ>> I.e.   START C:\SWITCHER\SWITCHER.EXE.  Or adding CD C:\
 CJ>> just after the SWITCHER command.

 CJ>> If you are trying to get the remainder of SW.BAT to run before
 CJ>> SWITCHER finishes, I suspect that you are out of luck.  Unless
 CJ>> SWITCHER has the ability to run a batch file itself.

 DS>   That is what the START command does. I.e. if you have a call
 DS> to SWITCHER in one line of a batch file, the following lines do
 DS> not get executed until SWITCHER exits.  But, if you replace that
 DS> line by START SWITCHER, then the remaining lines will get
 DS> executed once the sub-process has been started (assuming that
 DS> you are in a multi tasking system).

but that won't do him any good because he wants those things handled within
the switcher environment... what he really wants is switcher to have/use
some sort of autoexec.bat type startup file... at least, that's how it
sounds to me from past conversations...

)\/(ark