Author: Rafael Villarroel
Date: 12:02:04 04/20/99
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On April 20, 1999 at 14:01:46, James Robertson wrote: >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 Thanks Remi! It works on my Win95 machine. I asked the same question on the alt.msdos.batch newsgroup, and this is one of the answers I received Rafael This requires the standard START.EXE utility. Type START/? at a command prompt. What you need is something like ... start /w winboard <arguments> start /w winboard <other arguments> start /w winboard <etc...> Tom Lavedas ----------- http://www.pressroom.com/~tglbatch/
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