On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:57:17 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>> Once, I wrote a similar program for Arachne to search files with
>> specified extension on (all) disks. I can check whether it still works.
> Was it inside those files as well? If it wasn't for the odd behaviour of
> one of the BATch files findfile.apm could have been released a few months
> back.
> Explanation of the problem:
> The DGI calls a BATch file, this BATch file uses "call" to run another one
> (created by a program in BATch file no 1). For some odd reason this
> approach only works in 4DOS (or rather it doesn't work in MS-DOS 6.x and
> 7.x). Any ideas why "call" in that BATch file fails?
Hmmm, could it be those 2 letters preceeding `-DOS' ??? ;-)
"nested calls" work just fine with OpenDos v7.01
"nested command line inputs" also work fine. ;-)
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