Brass Orchid
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Same idea

Posted by Brass Orchid, on Aug 29th, 2005

They used to make menuing programs which would build a directory tree by piping a command line "dir /s *.*" to a file and reading it. You could use a batch file to launch the menu, and when it returned, it would call another batch file, which would be created by the menuing code, returning back to the calling bat after the selected app terminated, then looping back to another label if the called bat returned a zero error level. No footprint in memory using bat files. Windows does all that now, but it's still useful in FreeDos, I suppose.

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