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? -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
