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Subject: Re: Starting programs one after another.

Author: James Robertson

Date: 18:02:26 06/03/99

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On June 03, 1999 at 20:28:15, Daniel Karlsson wrote:

>I haven't tried this myself and have neither NT nor 9x handy at the moment to do
>so but perhaps something like this would work:
>
>match.bat:
>
>winboard @match1.ini
>winboard @match2.ini
>....
>
>or
>
>start /wait winboard @match1.ini
>start /wait ...
>
>Put stuff like '-fcp <prog>', '-fd <dir>' and '-mg n' in 'match?.ini' for easy
>editing. IIRC you need to specify at least two games in each match or winboard
>will not exit automatically. I'm not sure about the '/wait' switch either, you
>may need to consult the helpfiles on that.

A few weeks ago someone said that using a batch file made all instances of
winboard start at once. :(

A few minutes ago on a hunch I tried the batch file again, and it worked! :)

James



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