batch file [executing EXEs]

[aze 0]

Hi all!

i'm trying to make a .BAT file that works like that:

 

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"c:\winnt\...\program1.exe"

"c:\winnt\...\program2.exe"

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but when i run the bat file it doesn't run the program2.exe while program1.exe is running. I'd like it ran both program at the same time.

how to do that?

thanks a lot!

[Four and Twenty 0]

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Hi all!
i'm trying to make a .BAT file that works like that:

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"c:\winnt\...\program1.exe"
"c:\winnt\...\program2.exe"
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but when i run the bat file it doesn't run the program2.exe while program1.exe is running. I'd like it ran both program at the same time.
how to do that?
thanks a lot!

hmmm
that is an interesting question
i am not sure that you can do that
it is kind of the nature of a script
one thing completes and then next thing runs until it is done

you should try learning some visual basic
that would surely be able to do it

[aze 0]

I know something about VB. But not enought to build a script.

If someone could send me a sample I would be grateful.

[Davros 0]

Do it this way:

 

start "c:\winnt\...\program1.exe"

start "c:\winnt\...\program2.exe"

[aze 0]

thanks a lot Davros! that works!

[Four and Twenty 0]

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Do it this way:

start "c:\winnt\...\program1.exe"
start "c:\winnt\...\program2.exe"

cool
ya learn something new everyday

[Igor 0]

Slightly different method is

 

start /w "c:\winnt\...\program1.exe"

start "c:\winnt\...\program2.exe"

 

This will make is wait after one program wait before another one.