In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> Subject: .BAT: exit Win, Run DOS program, restart Win?
>
> Thanks everyone for all your suggestions on this but from what I've
> discovered it cannot be done in Win 3.1x.
>
> I wanted this for some DOS games I have that in their user manuals say
> that the games do not run with Windows and will crash Windows; Jazz
> Jackrabbit and Nitemare 3D. I've tried all sorts of .PIFs and exit
> utilities and after several minutes the game will crash. But from DOS
> these games play great and never crash.
>
> Please don't reply saying you tried this on your P-III 1Ghz, 1GB RAM
> with Win 2000 and you had no problems. I'm using a 386sx-20Mhz, 4MB,
> VGA-256K, DOS 6.22, WFW 3.11 and with that setup it cannot be done.
...
Dunno if this helps much, but I've got a similar setup and I run Windows
apps from DOS with a batchfile which starts Windows, goes straight into
the app and, when the app ends, quits Windows back to my DOS batchfile
which can obviously run DOS programs and can go round that Win-DOS-Win
circle as often as desired. The basic steps for what you want to do are
there, I think, although I confess that I haven't followed the thread
that closely...
I use Bailout for the Windows shutdown and Batsh for the Windows "batch"
script interpreter. Between the two you can get Windows to dance to your
tune. The only thing I've not tried to do is quit Windows from inside a
Windows DOS session so if that's the need what I do isn't any help, but
then the idea of running DOS inside Windows strikes me as bizarre.
I don't think it's at all relevant, but I am running Windows as a task
under the DR-DOS Taskmgr.
Alex.
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