# Batch Programming

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Saturday, 10-Jul-2010 13:41:19

So I decided to get a jump start on my batch programming. I found a huge, and I do mean huge, list of batch programming resources at
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/Websites.html#Batch
Anyway, I settled on this one for now.
-Batch File Programming Handbook & Tutorial
http://users.telenor.dk/~dsl645578/batfiles.htm
It's designed with a newby in mind, so walks you through everything. I'm really excited to discover what things I can create and how I can optimise and customise my computer and learn programming in the process. One of my immediate fears was put to rest today too. Should I screw up my autoexec.bat file in any way, I can simply hit f5 and the machine will skip that file in the boot process. I don't know about the equivalent in Enhanced DR-DOS, but I'm sure there's one. I've also seen, on the first page, several utilities that I don't understand yet. But it looks like there's alot of toys for me to play with once I know what I'm doing. Now it's off to cleaning. I'll get back to this treasure in a bit. I'll keep you guys updated on any major accomplishments that I make over the next few days.

## Post 2 by AgateRain (Believe it or not, everything on me and about me is real!) on Sunday, 11-Jul-2010 8:57:10

What is this program for? I'm interested in this type of stuff and would like to learn how to create links for people to just click on. Also, learn how to clean viruses and such things of that nature. If I could teach myself this that'll be great! If this isn't that type of program, then oh well.

## Post 3 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Sunday, 11-Jul-2010 14:13:15

I wrote a response this morning, but The Zone went down as I was about to post. Anyway, batch files aren't for creating links and are not usually for the internet, though I suppose something could be created for that as far as starting certain programs such as NetTamer etc. I'm not sure if one could be made that would automatically take you to your favourite website but it might be possible. You probably should learn html in order to create links. In any case, batch files make it easier to type commands. For example, instead of typing "edit c:autoexec.bat" you could make a batch file so that you only had to type one or three keys to load the editor and the file. I have one already set up, that came with the machine, for getting to Wordperfect. I just type "wp" from anywhere within DOS and it loads the program automatically. There's also a way to make certain programs, such as screen readers, start when the computer boots and there's a way to create a .bat file to remap keys, but I don't know how this is done yet. This is all new to me and very exciting, but I doubt it would interest you, unless there's a Windows equivalent.

## Post 4 by AgateRain (Believe it or not, everything on me and about me is real!) on Sunday, 11-Jul-2010 15:41:28

Aw, I see. Is there any program or anything to show me how to do it from home? html that is...

## Post 5 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Sunday, 11-Jul-2010 16:20:03

I think the blind programmer's site has something but I've never looked. Perhaps, you should start a thread for it. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I could help you. Someone recommended a book for me to learn html once but I forget it at the moment.

## Post 6 by AgateRain (Believe it or not, everything on me and about me is real!) on Sunday, 11-Jul-2010 21:30:09

Alright, I'll do that.

## Post 7 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Monday, 12-Jul-2010 15:11:44

Ah I remember the days of autoixec.bat! Back in the "early days" of windows. Good luck with the batch scripting.

## Post 8 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Monday, 12-Jul-2010 16:54:07

Thanks. I think I'll save that tutorial to disk so that I can open it with Wordperfect Editor and then open the autoexec.bat file as my second document there so that I don't have to keep switching from the Windows to the DOS machine.

## Post 9 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2010 0:23:53

Makes sense

## Post 10 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2010 9:29:33

If you want a good tutorial for HTML, go to W3c. Search w3c html tutorial on google.

## Post 11 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2010 23:53:29

yup, w3schools is good.

## Post 12 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 15-Jul-2010 4:23:28

I couldn't find anything there of interest for me. But maybe, I missed something.

## Post 13 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Thursday, 15-Jul-2010 7:11:31

W3C is the Web consortium, and dos and batch programming has nothing to do with web pages .. but if you want to develop web pages they have tutorials on html javascript, xhtml, setting up a web site basics and other stuff that one needs to write and run a web site also lots of info on WCAG and accessibility standardization.

## Post 14 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 15-Jul-2010 9:04:56

Ah, I see. It's been a long time since I've been there. *smile* I thought it was a programming site in general and didn't realise that it was only for the web. That said, you can certainly write html pages with DOS, so I might check it out some time.