A "batch" is a file which contains a series of commands. When you
execute the "batch" file, these commands execute in sequence as
programmed. The term probably dates back from the early days of
computers when you submitted jobs to computers in "batches".
To do what you want, you'll want to create a file which holds the commands:
cls
type filename.txt
Use notepad or some other editor to work with this file.
where you replace filename.txt with the relevant file name.
at a command prompt, type "help" to see all the commands available. To
find the options for each command, type the command name followed by a
"/?" (without the quotation marks.
MS DOS is the name of the operating system Microsoft licensed in the
1980's and early 1990's. While it is still in use in some computers, it
is not part of Windows XP. What you see in XP, that is sometimes called
"DOS" by some, is just a command prompt which emulates, or looks like, DOS.
Don't know of any newsgroups about it, but you can find some documents
on Microsoft's web site about how to develop more sophisticated "batch"
files and do some rudimentary programming. That being said, any serious
"batch" programming is often done in something more sophisticated (Perl,
Python, VB, VBA, or other langauge).
Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.
rms
