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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:20:20 CST
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- From: ACADMARG%STMARYTX@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
- Subject: Re: Getting from CD drive prompt to menus
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- Regarding the question on how to put CDs such as NTDB on a menuing system,
- this was a problem for us also. This is solved by trying to find the batch
- file which actually calls the program you want to execute. On the NTDB disk,
- the program I generally want to execute is run from the batch file "1.bat"
- and the "x.bat" file returns the user to the dos prompt. Then you write
- your own batch files which calls these files to execute the first one and
- use the second one to return to the menu.
-
- My batch file for running this part of NTDB on our menuing systems looks like:
-
- @echo off
- call 1.bat
- call x.bat
-
- and that's all. I named this batch file "ntcd.bat" and our menu runs this
- file when asked for NTDB. Any program on the disk can have its own batch
- file to call it and be placed on the menu. In one way this is kind of nice, be-
- cause some of the things on NTCD are not things we want users to be examining,
- like the setup.
-
- If this is not clear enough, please contact me directly as I am not on
- this email group. This question was referred to me by our documents librarian.
-
- Margaret
-
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