Re: dx ??

[Carl Distefano <cld@xxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

You can use DY instead of DX. This executes the DOS command without
importing the output back into XyWrite, and reports "Done" on the
PRompt line whether the command succeeds or not. Good
enough for commands that succeed 99% of the time. (Not
recommended for iffy commands, or if failure
would have dire consequences.)

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx

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On Jan 16, 2019, 10:59 AM, at 10:59 AM, Paul Breeze  wrote:

>Dear Carl
>
>I am using your suggested command line routine formulation:
>
>"dx USE F: F:\"
>
>to set a usb pen drive in VDOSPLUS as the F drive. This works
>perfectly
>for me. However when I run this command it opens a new window in XY4
>confirming that the drive has been set. I then have to close this
>window in order to return to the file I was editing. It is a small
>thing, but is there any way that this routine could run and -- if
>successful -- close the window so that after I had run it from the
>command line I was returned to the file I was working on?
>
>Best wishes
>
>Paul