Batch file

[rich_m]

I've just read about creating batch files and would like to know if it is possible to create a batch file which loads 2 programs i.e. 2 exes simultaneously.
i tried to create one with the following:
An example

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@echo off
call C:\ab.exe
call D:\hi.exe

the above opens ab.exe and only after it(ab.exe) is terminated, does hi.exe open.

[Solar]

DOS is a single-tasking environment. And as batch files are run in the DOS environment, you can't multi-task there. No parallel execution, sorry. (AFAIK, I stopped working DOS some time ago.)

[Candy]

If you are actually running a dos-box in windows you can use the windows-program "start.exe" to start the programs, after which you will be back in your dos-box to start another. This would work, yet you'd have to have Windows to make it run.

[rich_m (out)]

you can use the windows-program "start.exe" to start the programs

How do i use it? ???

[distantvoices]

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start [your_program]