Getting Batch Files to Close Their Own Windows in 95

Kenn's
Tech
Notes

19980607: Getting Batch Files to Close Their Own Windows in 95

June/1998
Tech Note #7

Al F turned up this useful tidbit. If you ever have occasion to distribute disks which use batch files, you may have noticed that on some Windows 95 systems, the window in which the batch runs does not close itself. Instead, it stays open, with the window title changing to Finished - (name of batch). You can avoid this annoyance by distributing a PIF file with your batch, but there's an even easier way. Simply add these two statements to the very end of the batch:

echo off
cls

Even with a PIF that says not to close the window, the window of any batch ending with those two statements will close!

For more information see Microsoft's Technical Article Q122514.

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