Run complex chain of windows batch files in cyg

Hannu E K Nevalainen _garbage_collector_@telia.com
Thu Aug 12 21:01:00 GMT 2004


xxxxxx-owner@xxxxxx.com wrote:
> I tried that but it didn't seem to work. Turns out it is a two step
> process. You first have to run "cmd" as you say. Then you run a dos
> bat file to set up the env which seems to complete but unless you type
> "exit" it does not take effect. After typing exit you can run the
> nmake (still in windows cmd mode) which runs as if it were in a
> regular command window (dos box). After the nmake finishes, you can
> type exit again which returns you to bash mode in the rxvt box.
> 
> Thanks for the help!

To try to ease it up even further; Check out the /C -flag to CMD 

e.g. Start your startup.bat with 
$ cmd /c startup.bat

IMO this should take a couple of manual steps out of the process.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E         --72-->

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