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tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

how do i make a list that has commads in it do the command in order? meaning

when program run it reads a list....like a file called test.txt in this file are commands like

run test1.bat
run test2.bat
etc

and then run one at a time in order?

and tips on this?

p.s i hope i explain this well...hard to explain....

thanks

Dr. Dread · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:51 am Post subject:

Try something like this:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

is there a limit on how many items i can have in a list?

thanks

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 5:03 pm Post subject:

I think something around 98726284^28374... Just kidding... But it´s enough to put a few lines in like you mentioned....

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

your code works but there was a error on my part when i tried to explain it... Embarassed

when the program is run i forgot to say that it needs to wait 2 mins or so then run the first list then run a second list and run the lists in order....

sorry

thanks

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

only a few line it can do?

Mac · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject:

Lists are limited only by available memory, except Windows
95 has a limit of 32767 items in a visible list (not the ones
made with LIST CREATE).

You can insert a WAIT time into the list @item() as well. If you
allow a field for it, just check for a parsed value and add this to
your loop:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hummm

i think i follow what you mean mac on the wait...hummm if i have alot of items would it be better to have it read a txt file that have the batch file names in it? if so how would i do that?

thanks

Dr. Dread · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:07 pm Post subject:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ok

thanks

i'am having a hard time getting the timer to work and the second list to work Sad

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

To get the wait to to you will need to specify a value for %%wait, like this:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ahhh kk i see what you mean..question tho i thought that i read somewhere its not good to uses the wait command like this? this true?

thanks

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

the second list i did forget to mention in the first post... Embarassed

that list would also run diff types of batch files to

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I don't see any problem with it. In some cases it can cause trouble when
using a large amount of wait time, such as WAIT 10 since your program
won't let the user have any interaction. The solution to this would be the
following:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i see what you mean how would i added a second list to it?

so it would run the first list like every 2mins then run the second list in order then go back to the first list etc.

thanks