Lacey wrote: >well when I'm doing it manually I put in the command and then press enter, >then it takes a few seconds then returns a message "filexxxx unregistered >successfully" and you have to press enter again... > > ahhh, well I just tried a sample .bat file here myself, and it will pause automatically for you until you click OK, then it will proceed to next line. Terry > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "DavisUnit" <davist@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:46 PM >Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: How to write batch file > > > > >>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