running a .bat in win98... how do I?

[zskillz]

get the ms-dos window to close after I have run the bat?


it's reallly short



@echo off
net use blahblahblha blahblah
(here is where I want a command to close the window)




thanks
-Z

[OuTpaTienT]

I used to know this ..... darn...I forget.

I think you just make the last line read "exit" (w/o the quotes).

[muno]

Run the bat, press the little 'msdos' icon on the upper left corner when it finished. Select close automatically or something similar from the properties and it should not stay on top anymore.

I made that change quite a few times back when our virus scanner was updated via a bat file upon logon.
-M

[zskillz]

thanks muno... strange though, it creates a little msdos file to store that single setting in it. wierd

-Z

[herura]

The comand to exit a DOS box is "exit" (without the quotes). It works from the command line and it works in a script.

[zskillz]

believe me.. i tried it in the .bat file...

no luck and i don't know why

-Z

[zskillz]

hehe.. but it still requires 2 files.... i'm just surprised that I can't integrate the close command directly into the bat file itself

-Z

[OuTpaTienT]

Putting 'exit' as the last line of the batch should indeed work. If it doesn't try 'cls' right before the 'exit'. So your last two lines of the batch file should be:

cls
exit

Make sure you have a carriage return after exit.

[Crummy]

If you go into the properties of the bat file (right click choose properties) and choose close on exit. That option is in one of the tabs can't remember which. This should work for you.

**EDIT**
Sorry Steve didn't mean to repeat, should've read all the posts first.

[J-Excel]

Having "exit" at the end works fine in Win2k. I don't have Win98 installed to try it.