Hallo all

I working on win98 unattended got everything to work but ....

I have to close the dosbox by hand click on the cross to close window
and the install. goes on



I have to know the syntax to close window auto

Hi Ypsos,
maybe you have no "enter" after the last line with the exit.
In every Batchfile must be the last line an empty line, because your command will be executed with the linechange.
Allright, have a nice day!!!
Sie Tjin Kian

THX for reply
but nothing (yet)




maybe I ve to put syntax after cleanup.bat e.a "1"="C:\\Install\\Cleanup.bat /C" or somthing

Find the solution Close on exit enabled



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One way is to right-click the batch file and set it's
properties. window and to close when finished.
The act of setting properties will create a separate "pif" file.
From then on, any time you run the batch file, the settings will
be honored.


So that means you have to save the "pif" file aswell with the "bat"file




Another way is to start the batch file with the START
command using the /MIN option. This has other
interesting consequences... The batch file will run as
a separate process. You may also need to use the /WAIT
option if you need to synchronize the batch file with
something that has to happen after the batch file. Type
"start /?" at a DOS prompt for more info. The NT/XP/2000
START command has lots of cool options, while the 95/98
command has little more than I've described. Keep in
mind that the START command will have it's own DOS
window! So running your batch file with "/min" but
without "/wait" will cause the START command to very
briefly pop up a DOS window, then be replaced by your
batch file running minimized.

The coolest way is to make the batch file run totally
invisibly. This is just a little dangerous because your
batch file MUST be able to close itself and MUST never
produce an error which might require user input.
Otherwise the batch file will hang invisibly until
system shutdown or until someone kills it with the task
manager. To do this trick REQUIRES that you have Windows
Scripting installed. Scripting is standard on Win98 and
newer, and is an optional free download for Win95. To
test, type "wscript" in the Start/Run dialog. If you get
a settings dialog, you have it. If you get an error or
Windows offers to find it for you, you don't have it.
See my scripting web page for more info:
http://www.ericphelps.com/scripting/index.htm
Save this one line of text as "invisible.vbs":
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False
To run any program or batch file invisibly, use it like this:
wscript.exe "C:\Wherever\invisible.vbs" "C:\Some Other Place\MyBatchFile.bat"

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http://www.ericphelps.com

Ok THX for Repley

Problem solved

hi, does anyone here know about slipstreaming win98se updates? Is it possible?

@Digit_x

Sorry, none that I know of, however here is the home page of the
"Unofficial 98 SE Service Pack 1.5"
http://exuberant.ms11.net/

I think it could be a good starting point.

jaclaz

If you view properties for the Batch file, and choose Close on exit, it creates a PIF file... Use that with yuo batch file... This might work
Edit: sry, didn't read the previous post, sry

A solution I read about in another forum here or elsewhere is this:

-- Batch file begins below --
@echo off
-- body of batch file --
cls
exit 0
-- end of batch file --
The exit can be just exit or exit 0 or I suppose you can even have it return a conditional errorlevel.
The cls clears the screen buffer and exit causes the command interpreter to exit.
What causes the dosbox to close is the cls after all other programs have run.
This works regardless of whether or not you have the pif set to close the window on exit.

To be clear the cls works *because* it clears the screen buffer.
If something else runs after cls which puts any characters in the dosbox screen buffer the window will not close.