On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:56:28 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:50:30 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

<snip>

>> I used to have a little freeware program called RETURNTO.EXE,
>> or maybe it was RETURNTO.COM, that you could put at the end of
>> a batch file so that upon exiting it would return to whatever
>> directory you invoked the batch file from.  I don't know whatever
>> happened to this program.  I don't know where I got it from.  It
>> worked fine, but I never did use it very often.  I sure could make
>> some good use of it now.  Does anybody know where you can find it?

> If you're working is BATch files, there is absolutely no need to use any
> executable program just to get you where you want to be when the batch
> program finishes what you have it doing.

> First, nothing in Arachne is set up to return you to anyplace outside of
> Arachne.  You need to do that with your own customized batch files.  The
> easiest way to do that is to have two of them.  The first batch file
> CALLs the 2nd one -- the one that does all the work.  When the second
> batch file is finished, control returns to the first batch file and in
> that you can have the "instructions" to go to whatever directory on
> whatever drive you'd like ... before the batch file ends.  You could try
> it all with one batch file, but then if there is a problem there isn't a
> clean exit.  Using two, if the main batch file fails in some way, the
> 'starter' batch program will return you to where you want to be,
> regardless.

Yes, I know that is one way of doing it; however, I do recall having
used in the past some kind of freeware "returnto" com or exe file
which accomplished the same thing somehow.  It has been so long since
I have used it that I forgot how it worked.  All I remember about it
now is that it did work.

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:50:30 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

<snip>

>> I used to have a little freeware program called RETURNTO.EXE,
>> or maybe it was RETURNTO.COM, that you could put at the end of
>> a batch file so that upon exiting it would return to whatever
>> directory you invoked the batch file from.  I don't know whatever
>> happened to this program.  I don't know where I got it from.  It
>> worked fine, but I never did use it very often.  I sure could make
>> some good use of it now.  Does anybody know where you can find it?

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