KrazyKong

shae I'm using DOS-LOGO.SYS which loads and animated LOGO.SYS. It's running pretty good, but I've noticed any external .EXE's or .COM's loaded in the autoexec.bat cause the graphic to no longer display. But internal DOS commands don't interrupt things. Do you know of another utility or way to show a graphic when running a batch file?

Both of these options are external from the kernel. As I mentioned before ANY call to an .EXE or .COM will interfere with my loading graphic. I only have 2.88mb to play with here on this boot disk I am making which is based on a WinME (going to change to Win98SE) bootdisk. Thus there are very few if any files other than the dos boot files. All I have are the flash utility and the bios update file. If you've ever used DOS-LOGO.SYS then you'd know the program I'm trying to overcome. Thus the command for a pause HAS to be based on an internal DOS command(s). I know my example from above isn't pretty, but it's roughly working. I'd like to do something a bit more compact and based on real time vs the running time of a completed batch file. I wish Win98/ME supported SET /A, then I'd be home free. But only Win2K/XP/Vista/7 support the /A switch.

Hi there. Well it's nearly 3am and I'm still scratching my head trying to solve a problem. I'm building a batch file to be run in DOS/98/ME. The reason being is I'm making a boot disk and thus don't have access to the updated kernel commands. The problem I'm facing is I can't for the life of me create a way to pause for a set period of time. The command has to be internal and not a call to another .EXE. Otherwise this breaks the "loading" screen graphic I have that while the batch file does it's thing. The closest I came was with the SET command. But the only way to make a loop that counts for a set period is with the /A switch and this isn't a DOS/98/ME compatible switch. There are all sorts of .EXE utilities out there like WAIT, SLEEP etc. that do what I want. But since they are an external .EXE when called from the batch file, as I said it breaks the loading screen graphic. So I'm limited to being able to make a pause with IF SET FOR or some other way. But I don't know how to do this too well and thus ended up here. The best I could come up with was this. It's not pretty but it does seem to work, though it's not based on time, but rather how quickly ones computer can run through it. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Wow thanks gora jaclaz, I guess I looked over your link too quickly, as when I clicked the original one, the exectools.7z file wasn't there. The second ones you posted seemed to work though. I'll have to look at this web archive more. Seems like a good thing to be able to go back in time.

Wayback Machine! http://web.archive.org/ Here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080403025159/unattended.solta.ru/unattended.en.htm jaclaz Hmm close, but the exectools.7z is nowhere to be seen . The search continues...

Does anyone still have the exectools.7z from Oleg? All the links I've found all point to the now long dead http://unattended.solta.ru/exectools.7z Hoping someone might still have it and wouldn't mind sharing