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From: "Richard W. Knight" <rick_knight@rlknight.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with batch files
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:47:14 -0700
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To: Claudia Neumann <dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de>, linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org

Claudia Neumann wrote:

>Hi Rick!
>
>Am Freitag, 9. September 2005 05:05 schrieben Sie:
>  
>
>>I'm trying to get xdosemu to run a batch file to start an application
>>from my KDE desktop. The batch file is pretty simple, and I have been
>>able to use it in the past.
>>
>>The batch file is located in /usr/lib/freedos and it's being called with
>>"xdosemu -E pcplus.bat"
>>
>>@echo off
>>D:
>>cd \pcplus
>>pcplus.exe
>>exit
>>    
>>
>
>Try
>
>@echo off
>D:
>cd \pcplus
>call pcplus.exe
>exitemu
>
>cu
>
>Claudia
>  
>
Claudia,

Thanks for the reply.

Adding "call" to the batch file doesn't make any difference. I forgot to 
mention my previous post, I do get an error message,

"ERROR: could not change directory"

and then the dosemu command line. The problem seems to be that the 
change directory command "cd" doesn't work in a batch file when called 
by xdosemu with -E. Does this make sense?

Thanks again,
Rick Knight