Author: James Robertson
Date: 11:01:46 04/20/99
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On April 20, 1999 at 02:27:05, Rémi Coulom wrote: >On April 20, 1999 at 00:07:47, Rafael Villarroel wrote: > >> Since Winboard doesn't have built into itself the possibility >>of playing an engine tournament automatically, I wonder if >>somebody has been succesful in doing the same using batch files >>or some other utility. I haven't been able to do it myself. >> >>If a write just a series of commands in a batch file >> >>winboard <arguments> >>winboard <other arguments> >>winboard <etc...> >> >>I get several instances of winboard running simultaneously. If I >>put each command in a batch file, say 1.bat having >>winboard <arguments> as only line, 2.bat having >>winboard <other arguments> as only line, etc, >>then the batch, say main.bat, containing the lines >> >>call 1.bat >>call 2.bat >>call 3.bat >> >>seems to work at first, but when execution of the command >>of 1.bat is completed and the first instance of winboard closes, the >>DOS box doesn't recover focus automatically, and main.bat >>stops at the first line until I give focus to the DOS box again. >> >>Is there a way to execute this commands one after the other >>without intervention? >> >>I have seen some freeware scheduling utilities that could >>be useful, but one (Wincron) doesn't seem to allow to >>run a task immediately after closing the previous one, while >>another (Time Clock) allows one to do it, but doesn't read >>a text file as a task list. >> >>Thanks for any help >> >>Rafael Villarroel >>flores@math.umn.edu > >I had the same problem, and I solved it thanks to a command line option of the >start command. I unfortunately do not have a Windows machine here, but if you >type "start /?" or "start /help" at the command prompt, it will give you the >option you need (thanks to Tim Mann for giving me this tip). Then you simply run >winboard by invoking "start /magic-option winboard ...". > >Remi I get the error "Unable to find file 'start' (or one of it's components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all libraries are available." This is with my WinNT at work. Will Win95 give the same error, or will it work? James
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