Running the Command Shell
If you want to run a shell command, such as “type”, or “dir”, or you want to run a batch file, then you have to run cmd.exe first. For example,
cmd /c mybat.bat or cmd /c type foo.txt
Note: If you are using Windows 9x/Me, you should use command.com instead of cmd.exe.
If the Run string contains more than one command, separated by semi-colons, you don’t need to run cmd.exe because Source Insight creates a batch file from the run string commands and runs command.com automatically in that case. For example,
This works fine because it is already running in a batch file inside a shell.
You may find that the shell you spawned by cmd.exe does not have enough environment space. If that happens, use the /e switch with cmd.exe. For example,
cmd /e:1024 /c mybat.bat
This allocates 1K bytes of environment space to the new sub shell spawned by command.com.