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When start launches another program, adding the /W parameter works, but when calling an internal command it stops working? Why is that?
I looked through many earlier posts and none mentioned START delaying command execution, only delaying when calling other programs.

@echo off

rem To solve the problem that using EMULE to download and then auto-shutdown may damage the download, I wrote this script. The idea is as follows:

START /W shutdown -s -t 200

START /W shutdown -a

START /W XCOPY /S/C/H/R/Y rpl\*.*  d:\

shutdown -s -t 100

@echo on

In the code above, how can I make START wait after executing shutdown -s -t 200 until the 200S is over, then continue with shutdown -a and wait until that is finished, then continue with START /W XCOPY /S/C/H/R/Y rpl\*.* d:\, and after the copy is done then execute shutdown -s -t 100

Explanation: although it is possible to put each internal command into a BAT file to achieve this, if there are many commands it becomes very troublesome. How can this problem be solved? Is START really powerless when it comes to internal commands?

[ Last edited by HUNRYBECKY on 2006-12-30 at 11:15 PM

All the experts are gone. Heh.

Don't know

After shutdown -s -t 200, wait for the 200S to finish? Then it will just shut down directly... it won't wait for your -a

You can do it with a VBS script: first set the program to exit automatically when the download is complete, then detect that EMULE is no longer running and shut down the system.