launching many applications from command line

[Maurice]

Hello:
I was using win98, there from a command line I could launch many aplications
from ready-made batch file, as I wish, after typing a command, I had the
prompt again immediately so i could type another command.
Now under XP, each time I type a batch file command, the prompt is suspended
until I close the opened application. Is there a mean to have the same
feature as with win98??

Thank you
Maurice

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Maurice]s message :

Hello:
I was using win98, there from a command line I could launch many aplications
from ready-made batch file, as I wish, after typing a command, I had the
prompt again immediately so i could type another command.
Now under XP, each time I type a batch file command, the prompt is suspended
until I close the opened application. Is there a mean to have the same
feature as with win98??

Thank you
Maurice

Use something like :
start /d "C:\Windows" regedit.exe

where c:\windows is directory and regedit.exe is file name.

 

[Paul Johnson]

Hello:
I was using win98, there from a command line I could launch many
aplications from ready-made batch file, as I wish, after typing a command,
I had the prompt again immediately so i could type another command.
Now under XP, each time I type a batch file command, the prompt is
suspended until I close the opened application. Is there a mean to have
the same feature as with win98??

Use Cygwin. This gives you unix-style bash scripting, which is a bit more
flexible than what microsoft's offerings are. http://www.cygwin.com/ In
the long term, though, if scriptability is what you need, Windows is not
your platform.