stormy1@xxxxxxx wrote: >Can someone tell me how to write a batch file? > >Has to be run from windows desktop (on win98se) so has to bring up the command >prompt, change dir to c:\windows\system , delete 2 files, copy same nameed 2 >files from d:\ back to c:\windows\system then run two regsvr commands from >commant prompt to un-register and then re-register some ocx files. I am sick & >tired of getting out the instructions and having to go do this "fix" everytime >a customer installs a new program (it mucks up another one and the fix is to >run this series of commands). > >I know it can't be too hard....can it? > >Thanks, >~Lacey~ > You can write the batch file in notepad, but instead of it being a *.txt file, you would rename it to a *.bat To do what you want, the contents of the file would be like so: c: cd\windows\system del file1 del file2 copy d:\file1 c: copy d:\file2 c: regsvr32 unregistercommand1 regsvr32 unregistercommand2 regsvr32 registercommand1 regsvr32 registercommand2 Terry > > >To unsub or change your email settings: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > >To access our Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ >//www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > >For more info: >//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > > > > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk