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I'm looking for a program....

2004-05-14, 8:57 PM #1

Crimson

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that will let me queue programs in Windows so that as one program finishes another will start. For example, when Norton finishes scanning, disk defragmenter will start up and do it's thing, then I can synchronize my PDA and comp. That sort of thing. Anyone know where I can get such a program, or even if one exists?

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2004-05-14, 10:02 PM #2

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It's call Batch File Encoding.

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2004-05-15, 7:25 AM #3

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Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DDRSDRAM:
It's call Batch File Encoding.

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yep. it's about the only way I know of.

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2004-05-15, 8:55 AM #4

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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308569&sd=tech

2004-05-15, 12:34 PM #5

Crimson

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what exactly is Batch File Encoding and how does it work? better yet, is there a link to this info?

Jon, i know about task scheduler but it's not quite what i'm looking for. it will ROUGHLY work like i want if i know how long a program usually takes to run, but otherwise it's not much help. i need something that will start one program when another is finished running, not at a certain time.

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2004-05-15, 8:49 PM #6

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bump

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2004-05-15, 8:56 PM #7

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Install Windows Service for UNIX, run the C shell, and type in each run command, separated by a "&&". For example:

% norton.exe && defrag.exe && pdasync.exe

Or you could write a shell script that just executes the commands sequentially.

I don't really know an easy way to do it outside of UNIX though. . .

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2004-05-15, 9:35 PM #8

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hmm, i'll look into that. thanks.

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2004-05-16, 4:30 AM #9

Aaron

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Just create a .bat file like this:

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norton.exe   -commands
defrag.exe   -parameters
hotsync.exe  -stuff

Then schedule or run whatever.bat and when one task finishes, the next will run, and so on. But if somebody closes the command prompt window, the script will stop.

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