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185199 2003-10-23 04:24:00 Yer Babe Ruth, the famous baseball player. ;) PoWa (203)
185200 2003-10-23 10:52:00 Many, many appologies if needed! :-(

All I can say is that I am only British, sorry. :_|

I think now that it is mentioned that I have heard of Babe Ruth. Didn't the guy who played Fred Flinstone in the first 'real' film play Babe Ruth in a film about his life once??? ?:|

Oh dear, hope I don't get dropped as I felt I was getting some where! You guys have helped out a lot.

Any old pickled Hobbit, sorry once again,
Regards,
the Cell
Brain_Cell_Anon (261)
185201 2003-10-23 21:57:00 > Many, many appologies if needed! :-(
>
> All I can say is that I am only British, sorry.
> :_|

Don't fret, I havent seen Babe get his knickers in a twist over someone mistaking his gender yet. :D
Fire-and-Ice (3910)
185202 2003-10-24 00:33:00 > Don't fret, I havent seen Babe get his knickers in a twist over someone mistaking his gender yet. :D

lol, I think I accidentally called him 'Ruth' once - whoops! ;) That was before I found out.

Anyway, have you solved your problem yet? The 'wait' command looks useful. What programs are your trying to start and close etc? Do they close by themself?
PoWa (203)
185203 2003-10-26 11:10:00 Think I got away with that one, phew!! ;-)

PoWa.
Ok, I have to say I'm a little embarrassed as I haven't actually had the time to take this any further than where I was @ the start!! :8}

I'm not really sure how to write a batch file as I was thinking it's a DOS file of which I didn't think Windows XP had!! ?:|

This may be perhaps too far over my head, but I've printed out all thus far. But I'm fairly confident and quite tenacious (or stoopid :-) ) so I'll keep pegging away @ it 'till I find an answer. :D

The 'wait' command does look useful, and maybe used in conjunction with the 'start' command ( c above) will find my answer. But I don't fully understand how to write a batch file yet, let alone what to put in it even. :_| Any help there would be very much appreciated!! :x

Will do a search for Batch file tutorials on the interweb!! LOL

BTY & FYI There is a (are some) site(s) out there that has "Sams learn C++ in 24 (21?) hours." for free in a PDF file. It's a 10 year old version, but I think that C++ hasn't changed that much!! :-) Check Google out to find it.

Ta again, :D
the Cell
Brain_Cell_Anon (261)
185204 2003-10-27 11:28:00 Well 'gang'. Very much appreciated for all your help. It appears that Babe_Ruth knows his marbles!! :D

I opened notepad, saved it as 'StartAll.bat' (it seemed like a good idea @ the time!!! :p ) and typed:

START /WAIT program1
START /WAIT program2
START /WAIT batchcmd1
START /WAIT link3 ... etc

well actually I didn't have to type wait just the "W". So all I typed was:

START /W program 1.........etc

AND (falling over in extremes of enjoyment, no I don't get out much!! :-) ) it worked. Just what I wanted. B-)


Many, many thanks for all your help, now I'll 'bone' up a little on batch files and try and refine it all a bit.

Regards,
the Cell :D
Brain_Cell_Anon (261)
185205 2003-10-28 07:38:00 Brain_Cell_Anon,

I'm glad to see that you got something to work... you're on your way with batch files :)

No offense taken with misunderstood name Just glad to be able to help

Cheers, Babe.
Babe Ruth (416)
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