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fromtheseashes
7th July 2005, 06:00
I would like to set up HCbatch_015 to do a series of compression
jobs, one after the other. When I invoke it from the command line,
it starts up a compression process (with a window to display its
progress) and returns. So I can't just make a .bat file with a
bunch of "HCbatch_015 -i h:\tmp\..." commands in it. I thought if
I invoked it twice it might queue the second job, or at least run
both concurrently, but instead the second invocation fails because
both processes want to use the same database file, HC.dbs in the
installation directory. Nor can I find an option to change the name
or location of the dbs file.

Any help is appreciated.

Prodater64
7th July 2005, 09:24
I would like to set up HCbatch_015 to do a series of compression
jobs, one after the other. When I invoke it from the command line,
it starts up a compression process (with a window to display its
progress) and returns. So I can't just make a .bat file with a
bunch of "HCbatch_015 -i h:\tmp\..." commands in it. I thought if
I invoked it twice it might queue the second job, or at least run
both concurrently, but instead the second invocation fails because
both processes want to use the same database file, HC.dbs in the
installation directory. Nor can I find an option to change the name
or location of the dbs file.

Any help is appreciated.

Call HC with start /wait command.

http://www.ss64.com/nt/start.html