Aaron P Ingebrigtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:14:38 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > start [options] programm [parameters for programm]
>
> Well in DOS there is no need for a START command of any kind in order to
> start an executable file.
I believe that the START command is equivalent to "nohup ... &" in the
Unix world -- i.e., it runs a program in the background. Or something
like that.
> There is no "start" command in DOS or Windows that I have ever seen.
It definitely exists in some versions of Windows (at least NT). I've
seen references to it before....
> Well that would be nice, if I had such a command or executable. :) But
> then, DOS can only have ONE TSR program at a time I think.
That's untrue. DOS can (and frequently *does*) have multiple TSRs in
memory at once. Use the MEM command to see them.
> > > for %f in ( *.* *\*.* ... ) do rem %f
> Yes, as far as I can tell, it does not recurse the directories. DARN
> IT!!!
Try installing the Unix tools -- either DJGPP's set, or Cygwin's set.
Then you can write shell scripts (subject to DOS limitations on file
names, lack of "fork()" in the DJGPP toolkit which is DOS-based, etc.).
In a Unix shell, your command would look something like:
find . -print | while read f; do blah blah $f; done
(And you can do more subtle constructions using "xargs", etc.)
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