Right now I have my windows booting with shell=c:\startup.bat
In that batch file I copy my playlist to my winamp directory and then load the specific playlist. I also check to see if my external hard drive is plugged up and if it is, it runs the autorun.bat process from it.
Basically my questino is this, is there a way in a batch file to pause for a determined amount of time? Basically I want it to pause for say 1-2 seconds. The problem Im running into is that my startup sound "Welcome to the Grand aMP3 Project" is running just barely long enough that my music starts up behind it. Any ideas? Sorry to just badger on, its a saturday.
The Grand aMP3 Project
Car: 96 Pontiac Grand Am
Current Setup: AMD K62 300MHz, 64MB DIMM RAM, 20GB WD Hard Drive, Basic Video & Sound
Hi grandamp, just add the following line into your batch file where you want the pause to take place:
choice /n /t:n,2
The "2" is the number of seconds you want to wait. It can be any value from 0 to 99.
This is assuming you're using either MS DOS or Win9x.
Hope this helps.
Dex
thanx dex, i hadnt even thought about anything like that, basically asking a choice but timing out after 2 seconds. I knew I could do that just didnt think about it. Anyway, thanx again.
The Grand aMP3 Project
Car: 96 Pontiac Grand Am
Current Setup: AMD K62 300MHz, 64MB DIMM RAM, 20GB WD Hard Drive, Basic Video & Sound
Your welcome.
I just thought, this line works a bit better if done like this:
choice /n /t:y,2>nul
This simply prevents "echoing" the responce to the screen, and by using Y instead of N you generate an errorlevel 1, which I think, is better than leaving an errorlevel 2 hanging. May not be important, just a safeguard.
The NT/2000 resource kit has a sleep command that works for that
Since there are some DOS head's here, does anyone know how to create a directory, the name of which is the current date, without having to type in the date?
Then include the name of this directory in the path of a "copy" command?
I tried this a while back and gave up as I couldnt figure it out. Can anyone please help?
Dave
the only way I would think to do that, and even this is a real stretch, is to echo the date out to a file (date.txt or something). Then you would have to somehow call the first line of that date.txt and use in the md function. I highly doubt this is at all possible but one can dream. If I were you, I would either learn some programming or have someone program a small program to do what you want.
The Grand aMP3 Project
Car: 96 Pontiac Grand Am
Current Setup: AMD K62 300MHz, 64MB DIMM RAM, 20GB WD Hard Drive, Basic Video & Sound
thenominous, I've seen this before but can't find it at the moment.
However, its here somewhere:
Batch File Links
Its a lot of reading and research, but the answer is out there!
If I find it first, I'll post it.
Dex
http://www.batch.hpg.ig.com.br/index.htm
Specifically look at #2 and #5. There are also may additional routines you can play with.
If NT/2K/XP is your bag, look here:
http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm
A good all around site is below:
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html
Have fun.
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