Mundy

Suppose you wanted to call a program or another script from within your batch file. There are at least two ways of doing this that I know about.

First, you can just enter the path to the executable, like so:

c:\windows\notepad.exe

Run the script and notepad will open. You'll notice that the command window stays open until notepad is closed, because the script waits for the command to exit before it continues processing.

If you want to continue immediately without waiting for notepad to close, you can use the "start" command, like so:

start c:\windows\notepad.exe

The start command can do other things like adjusting priority, etc. Just type "start /?" to get an idea.

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