Can someone please make a simple .exe program for me? All i need it to do is:
delete C:\sierra\redbaron3d\data\rbprefs.dat
then load C:\sierra\redbaron3d\baron.exe
I'm having trouble with this game... its a long story, but it would be a great help if someone could make this program instead of having to do it manually every time. Thanks,
Rob

Open a text editor and create a file called RedBaron.bat and create the following lines within:

@echo off
del C:\sierra\redbaron3d\data\rbprefs.dat
C:\sierra\redbaron3d\baron.exe

save the file, then double click to run

hi mark,
on seeing your reply to the above question i thought that the above batch file would not work i always asumed you needed to put

cd\what ever directry
if you were going to and from another sub directry. BUT i tryed your programe and to my surprise it worked fine(in win98), it just showes that you learn somthing new every day (i dont surpose it would work like this in true dos??)
regards chelsie

It sure would! But its been a while so you may need to enter the lines as below:

del C:\sierra\redbar~1\data\rbprefs.dat
C:\sierra\redbar~1\baron.exe

The ~1 may be needed because the redbaron3d directory name is longer then 8 characters and in dos may be recognized only as redbar~1. Again, I'm not sure if you even have to do this although it is perfectly acceptable. I use Win2K mostly and I have forgotten some of the subtler details of dos.

Thanks for the help, the code works perfectly.