Greetings,

I have a very simple bat file (on xp pro) that I'm trying to use to launch multiple telnet-client SESSIONS to various sets of hosts. The problem is that only one client session launches. The following COMMANDS don't execute until the previous one exits.

Is there a way to launch them all simultaneously/concurrently as you may in UNIX by backgrounding each task? A code fragment from the bat file appears below. Any help is sincerely appreciated. Thanks!

@ECHO OFF
REM OpenNOC5.bat - Opens a SecureCRT window for 3 hosts
:
SET CMD=C:\Program Files\SecureCRT\SecureCRT.exe
SET CONFIGPATH=C:\VanDyke\Config
SET SESSIONPATH=MUAT
:
SET HOST1=cmtnoc5-mx1
SET HOST2=cmtnoc5-mx2
SET HOST3=cmtnoc5-mx3

"%CMD%" /f "%CONFIGPATH%" /S "%SESSIONPATH%\%HOST1%"
"%CMD%" /f "%CONFIGPATH%" /S "%SESSIONPATH%\%HOST2%"
"%CMD%" /f "%CONFIGPATH%" /S "%SESSIONPATH%\%HOST3%"

-- mikeone way is to separate out your 3 commands to separate batch, and run these batches together.You can use the start command which will launch three separate WINDOWS (processes) all running concurrently.

Code: [Select]@ECHO OFF
REM OpenNOC5.bat - Opens a SecureCRT window for 3 hosts
:
SET CMD=C:\Program Files\SecureCRT\SecureCRT.exe
SET CONFIGPATH=C:\VanDyke\Config
SET SESSIONPATH=MUAT
:
SET HOST1=cmtnoc5-mx1
SET HOST2=cmtnoc5-mx2
SET HOST3=cmtnoc5-mx3

start "%CMD%" /f "%CONFIGPATH%" /S "%SESSIONPATH%\%HOST1%"
start "%CMD%" /f "%CONFIGPATH%" /S "%SESSIONPATH%\%HOST2%"
start "%CMD%" /f "%CONFIGPATH%" /S "%SESSIONPATH%\%HOST3%"

Good luck. 8-) i have a friend he has a bat file where he just clicks on it and he opends aroud 7 diferent things in less that 10 sec i just wanted to know that command 8-)

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:-?