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minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoi remember writing .bat files and pretending they were really fancy update scripts when i was like ten they did nothing but it was still fun :)
minus-squareMs. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoLike half of my job is writing .bat files to automate stuff locally and not tell my boss that all I do anymore is double click the right things in the right order…
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoDo you ever list your job title as Batman?
minus-squareviking@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoYou can put in a timeout command at the end, and then call the next .bat file. For example “TIMEOUT /T 60” waits for 60 seconds before resuming, or you can override it by pressing any key. So if you know how long the wait time between scripts is, just write a master.bat and call them in order, with adequate waiting time in between.
minus-squareKISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoThey were important to boot games that needed most of your limited memory.
minus-squaredoublejay1999@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months ago640k should be enough for anybody
minus-squareAWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agotell that my mouse driver, the soundblaster driver and the cdrom driver fighting over every single byte of that precious ram 😩
minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agopunctuation is a scam created by the shadow government
minus-squarebillgamesh@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoyeah punctuations is silly who cares
minus-squareEldritch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoTypicalcommingfromashillforbigwhitespace!
minus-squarelaughterlaughter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoIt isn’t. There’s a reason for it.
i remember writing .bat files and pretending they were really fancy update scripts when i was like ten they did nothing but it was still fun :)
Like half of my job is writing .bat files to automate stuff locally and not tell my boss that all I do anymore is double click the right things in the right order…
Do you ever list your job title as Batman?
You can put in a timeout command at the end, and then call the next .bat file.
For example “TIMEOUT /T 60” waits for 60 seconds before resuming, or you can override it by pressing any key.
So if you know how long the wait time between scripts is, just write a master.bat and call them in order, with adequate waiting time in between.
They were important to boot games that needed most of your limited memory.
640k should be enough for anybody
tell that my mouse driver, the soundblaster driver and the cdrom driver fighting over every single byte of that precious ram 😩
Please use punctuation.
punctuation is a scam created by the shadow government
yeah punctuations is silly who cares
Typicalcommingfromashillforbigwhitespace!
It isn’t. There’s a reason for it.