stormy1@xxxxxxx wrote: >okay I figured it must be something like that. How do I deal with having to >press "Enter" after each regsvr32 and regsvr32 /u command before I can proceed >to the next one? > >~Lacey~ > I would assume it's like all the other commands which require Enter....which happens when you hit Enter on each line of the batch file. Terry > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: DavisUnit <davist@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:31 pm >Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: How to write batch file > > > >>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