Batch file creation for Windows machines

[nerdboy]

Afternoon all,
I need to rollout an application to clients in an AD environment. I want to use a batch file in the startup script but I want the executed application to remain in the foreground until completion. Does anyone know the switch to make this happen?
Cheers.

[chip256]

I don't know of a simple way to do it.

Perhaps one way would be to create a file which gets deleted by the program when it finishes and have the batch file loop if the file exists.

[BSS]

start /wait <command>

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>start /?
Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.

START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
[/WAIT] [/B] [command/program]
[parameters]
...
WAIT Start application and wait for it to terminate