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- No matter what anyone tells you, creating a batch file IS a form
- of programming. Once you learn how to create these helpful files
- (including every one of the more difficult sub-commands)you will
- have earned the right to be extremly proud of your efforts. As a
- matter of interest, TIMEMASTER chose the batch processing method
- to create its menu system.We easily could have used more complex
- languages. WE wanted, however, to create a menu system that YOU,
- the P.C. User--no matter what level of expertise--could use (and
- CHANGE [easily]) whenever YOU so desired!
-
- Another way to describe the >batch processing method is to liken
- it to an airline trip with several stops. When you create a .BAT
- file it represents the flight plan. Once started, however, it is
- like being on "autopilot". Each sequence in your flight plan is
- automatically completed, one after the other. You actually don't
- even have to be around for the flight-----or the landing!
-
- Batch files have a language all their own. You will follow one
- of several specific formats, (each described later), use stand-
- ard batch and DOS commands and a series of >>special batch-file
- SUBCOMMANDS (starting with dos version 2.x). These special sub-
- commands, which at first seem very confusing to the average PC
- User, give YOU power to write very sophisticated batch files!