Help for Dos Newbie - Open 2 files and specfic close option

[chrisino]

Hi,

I am new to dos and can only grasp simple instructions at the moment.

I would like to open 2 files in the same directory. File 1 to be opened first and then File 2 five seconds afterwards.

My main problem is that I would like file 1 to automatically close when I close file 2. Is this something that can do in dos or does it require some kind of programming skills

Apologies for the noob question.

[Ed Dyreen]

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What do u mean by opening a file ?, Locking it from being written to ?

This can be done with vbscript. Nothing like that with default DOS commands

[chrisino]

Hi,

Not really. Heres the timing batch which I worked out for myself. Delay of 10 seconds between opening first.exe and second.exe. What I need to know is when I close second.exe can I have a script that closes first.exe as well?

It's probably not possible with any Dos commands like you said.

@ECHO OFF
start first.exe
echo wscript.sleep 10000 > temp.vbs
start /wait temp.vbs
start second.exe
del temp.vbs

[Ed Dyreen]

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I think I understand now:

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taskKill.EXE /t /f /im "process.EXE"

[chrisino]

Hi,

I tried adding this to the batch and it didn't quit the first file when I quit the second. Maybe my explanation is poor?

If it can't be done then is it possible to minimise the first file to the toolbar?

Thanks

Chris

[Ed Dyreen]

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Shutting down a process is not too difficult:

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@echo off

taskKill.EXE /?
pause

taskKill.EXE /t /f /im "cmd.EXE"
echo.never get's here.
pause

exit /b 0

[taripo]

Here it is. The file stars from the line @echo off

It opens calc.exe(process 1) and wordpad.exe(process 2)

If you then close calc.exe, wordpad.exe will immediately close.

The way it works, is it starts them both.

Then in a loop it keeps testing if calc.exe is running. If it isn't running, then it has been closed, then it closes wordpad.exe

You can put your vbscript 5 second pause between starting the two processes if you want.

@echo off
set tmpf=%TEMP%\asdf.a

set proc1=c:\windows\system32\calc.exe
set proc1b=calc.exe
set proc2="c:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe"
set proc2b=wordpad.exe

start "" %proc1%

start "" %proc2%


:BLAH

tasklist >"%tmpf%"
type "%tmpf%" | find "%proc1b%" >nul

if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
taskkill /f /im %proc2b% >nul
GOTO EOF
)

GOTO BLAH

:EOF

[chrisino]

Thank very much worked a treat.