barthe@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) (07/16/90)
From: barthe@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) Path: hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu!barthe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Printing to disk with Windows 3.0 Expires: References: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: The Ohio State University (IRCC) Keywords: I am trying to use windows w/o a printer, then printing to disk and going to another machine. The problem is, Windows always erases the previous content of the 'print' file. I have to save this file to a floppy, under a different name, every time. I wrote a small batch file to do just that, abd then a macro to launch this file. The problem is that the macro may be launched from any application. It needs to switch to the program manager to execute the .bat file. when I <ctrl-esc> to progman, I get a list of active tasks. How can I make sure that the macro will ALWAYS select progman ? I cannot use the mouse since the order of the listed tasks may vary. I cannot use P either bacause of Paintbrush, PCshell... Another problem I had in my batch file is that : for %%a in (e1.prn e2.prn) do goto test goto end :test dir a:%%a :end echo ---the end--- DOESN't work ! for some reason, dir doesn't replace %%a by its value. dir DOES replace %%a if I don't use a goto but is instead do the dir in the loop. I must be missing something. Thanks for your help Olivier -=- Olivier Barthelemy barthe@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu MBA Student 1660 N 4th St, #2B, Columbus, Ohio 43201 French TA Tel : (614)-294-3302 evenings Computer consultant Permanent adress : 1 Q Mistral, 13120 Gardanne, France