On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:53:31 +0100 (CET), Michael Polak wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> This DOESN'T work in A1.62/66/70: >> ....dgi |TYPE player.cmd>player.bat\nTYPE clip.tmp |dirfix >>player.bat. >> Never mind what dirfix is, it's NOT the problem. Arachne hangs and drops to >> DOS in a strange VGA textmode if you hit ^C twice and give the proper answers >> to:"Quit batch file ?y/n". BTW, player.bat is not created. > Hmm. This was not intended for complex multiline commands. BTW, about > text modes.... if you use > ...... |@player $1 > the "@" sign will force Arachne to switch to text mode while > playing and re-initialize graphics on return. I'll echo that: Hmm. ;-) Since Michael never intended it to work that way.... Clarence, You deserve a very nice "pat on the back" for finding a way to make this work. But to answer your question. I'm at a loss to explain why the >BAT needs to be there. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
