You can build a batch file like this:

set textmerge to 'test.bat'

text
dir
echo Look at these DOS commands
pause
echo done
pause
endtext
set textmerge to


run 'test.bat'


>Perhaps this is not the ideal solution, but you can create a batch file with several commands. Did you know that you can pass parameters to a batch file? This can help you make fairly flexible programs.
>
>Hilmar.
>
>>Does anyone know how to maintain an open command prompt that I can pass commands to. Let me explain. I have a process that opens a command prompt, runs a quick function and then the command prompt closes. This is extremely hard on the system. Not to mention slow. Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>Tom Welch