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Squashman wrote:And if you wanted to, we could create a script where you could drag and drop all your PARM files onto the batch file that you wanted to run. That is how most of my batch files are setup at work.

interesting, how would you do that??

The solution is much simpler. You want everything in the START command: - the window title - the directory to start in - the program to run - the parameters @echo off start "" /d "c:\Program Files\SaTScan" "SaTScanBatch.exe" "C:\temp\parameter_file_1.prm" sta...

Instead of just saying you tried this or that you should actually post the code you tried and then explain what happened when you tried it and if there was any error messages. I tried this, but it only brings up the CMD window and it is at the correct directory. but it doesnt launch the exe @echo o...

Check out the START command (type START /? to get help) Dave Benham I've tried several iterations of that, and using cmd and a /k command, all of which I know little about in DOS. The only think I was able to do was successfully get the CMD window to open and got to the directory I need. Can't actu...

I am trying to kickoff multiple sessions of a program called SaTScan.This SaTScan program has an exe file which can be called from the DOS prompt, and you then feed it a .prm file and it runs off of that. So in simple DOS terms, it would look something like: "cd c:\Program Files\SaTScan" &...