Waiting for a process to finish

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Ben Langhals

Hi,
I have a batch file that calls a batch file that calls yet another batch
file. The last batch file then starts an executable that will install
and then shut itself down.

I want the first batch file to wait until that installer is finished.
Since the installer is called in another batch file

does not work in this case. Any other ideas?
 
I've got a similar problem, without the nested batch files.

I run a 16-bit DOS program (Microsoft's own RTF-DOC converter from Word 5.5)
to convert a .DOC file to .RTF and then the MOVE command to overwrite the old
..RTF file. I don't have the converter use the same name so I can avoid the
"File exists: overwrite?" prompt.

The problem is that sometimes, apparently if the file being converted is
~too~ big, the MOVE command executes before the converter finishes. In fact,
the error message from MOVE comes out before the converter finishes its
banner.

I've tried using START /B /WAIT on the converter. I've tried running other
programs between the two commands. Neither helps. Both together don't help.

Command extensions are enabled.

Aren't batch commands supposed to execute sequentially?
 
Bob I said:
Could use an If loop to wait/check till it finishes.
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Could, but it doesn't work. It just results in an infinite loop (well, at
least two minutes). Doing it by hand, it only takes a matter of seconds.
 
Suppose you could try using the

Ping -n [number seconds + 1] 127.0.0.1

trick as a time delay.
 
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