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USING MS DOS APPLICATIONS

Many DOS programs use a command line to get parameters for it work. More Windows applications must to interact with user. For example, Windows ScanDisk do not close itself after the checking of HDD. It will wait for the user's command to close. Such DOS utilities as XCOPY can be used with the Runner better, than GUI applications. It can be launched as Windows applications, but in the Windows NT it is recomended to use CMD.EXE, and in the Windows 95/98 - standard COMMAND.COM with option /c command.
Sample (95/98):
 09:00 command.com /c xcopy c:\db\*.* e:\archdb
Sample (NT 4):
 09:00 cmd /c xcopy c:\db\*.* e:\archdb
This method, first, give to use internal DOS-shell commands (for example, "MD" to create a new directory), second, opened DOS-sessions will be closed automatically. For the Windows NT it is the best method to execute DOS-commands.

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