Hi folks, Hoping someone out there can help me. Im trying to run a series of batch files, one after the other. At first I was hoping to be able to kick one off after the other by somehow when done, the previous batch file passes some kind of "im finished" indicator to the next line of the batch file. So firstly..does..can anyone do this using MS DOS (and Win NT 4.0) in a batch file?? if not, then the other option i was looking at was a WAIT command, so wait X seconds before doing the next step. Again seems like Im asking for alot as good ol DOS doesnt have the command to do this!! So please please please does anyone have the guru status to help me out??? Post here or send me a mail. Thanks.. Andy

http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/DOS/54/98.html This page has a new command that can be added to your OS that is called wait... DOS was invented when everything was slow!

try "choice.com" another dos command Example TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,9 >NUL

Could you use the 'Call' command? This will run whatever .bat you want next.

The WAITFOR file works great. You set the lag by seconds and then you can use the /nk switch for no keystrokes. ex WAITFOR 2 /nk is what I used so a client could use an old DOS program that accessed a DB using Btrieve 5.10 on a machine running WinXP. Old Paint program from Spies Hecker.