BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Off Topic DOS question          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> C++ Builder (Non-Technical) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message LarryJ Guest Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Off Topic DOS question I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Thanks Larry Johnson. Back to top Anders Ohlsson (Borland) Guest Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question Quote: I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Just run it from the command line, instead of double clicking on it. -- Anders Ohlsson - http://blogs.borland.com/ao/ http://homepages.borland.com/aohlsson/blog_beta/#disclaimer Back to top Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] Guest Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question At 21:27:25, 05.02.2006, Duane Hebert wrote: Quote: Just run it from the command line, instead of double clicking on it. Or put a getch() (from conio.h) in the last line of the main() function. Or put system("pause"). Hmmm... FWIW, and more a reply to Anders' message: there are a few utilities I love. One of them is "Open Command Line Here" from the Microsoft PowerToys for XP. It appears in the context menu of every directory, and opens a command line with that directory as the current one. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx -- Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] http://rvelthuis.de/ "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Back to top Duane Hebert Guest Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question "Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]" <velthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:xn0ei4qrtm44rsq01b-velthuis (AT) www (DOT) teamb.com... Quote: At 21:14:24, 05.02.2006, Anders Ohlsson (Borland) wrote: I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Just run it from the command line, instead of double clicking on it. Or put a getch() (from conio.h) in the last line of the main() function. Or put system("pause"). Back to top Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] Guest Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question At 21:14:24, 05.02.2006, Anders Ohlsson (Borland) wrote: Quote: I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Just run it from the command line, instead of double clicking on it. Or put a getch() (from conio.h) in the last line of the main() function. -- Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] http://rvelthuis.de/ "Testing proves the presence, not the absence, of bugs." -- Edsger Dijkstra Back to top Ed Mulroy Guest Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question ------------------------ int main(... ... printf("Press Enter ..."); /* Added */ getchar(); /* Added */ return 0; } ------------------------ .. Ed Quote: LarryJ wrote in message news:43e65b2d$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Back to top Alisdair Meredith[TeamB] Guest Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question LarryJ wrote: Quote: I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? I see the problem all the time when running test cases - console apps just don't hang around! The traditional answer is to add some code to demand a user input before quitting. Personally, I just put a break-point on the closing brace of main() and run through the debugger. CBuilderX used to display the output from console apps in the Message window of the IDE, and it would be a REALLY nice feature to have in BDS... -- AlisdairM(TeamB) Back to top roman modic Guest Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:01 am    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question Hello! "LarryJ" <LarryJ33 (AT) ev1 (DOT) net> wrote in message news:43e65b2d$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Right-click on program icon, select "Properties", click on tab named "Program" and remove the tick from "Close on exit" Servus, Roman Back to top David Dean Guest Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:01 am    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question In article <43e67718$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, "Alisdair Meredith[TeamB]" <alisdair.meredith@no-spam-splease (AT) uk (DOT) renaultf1.com> wrote: Quote: CBuilderX used to display the output from console apps in the Message window of the IDE, and it would be a REALLY nice feature to have in BDS... Is this in QC? If it is, I'll move at least one vote to it. -- -David Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. Back to top Michael Gillen Guest Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question roman modic wrote: Quote: Hello! "LarryJ" <LarryJ33 (AT) ev1 (DOT) net> wrote in message news:43e65b2d$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Right-click on program icon, select "Properties", click on tab named "Program" and remove the tick from "Close on exit" Servus, Roman Or call it from a batch file and put "pause" as the final command. -- -Michael Gillen Back to top Tim Del Chiaro (Borland) Guest Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question Very nice. Thanks for the tip. Tim "Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]" <velthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:xn0ei4rbqm4xmwq01c-velthuis (AT) www (DOT) teamb.com... Quote: FWIW, and more a reply to Anders' message: there are a few utilities I love. One of them is "Open Command Line Here" from the Microsoft PowerToys for XP. It appears in the context menu of every directory, and opens a command line with that directory as the current one. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Back to top Alisdair Meredith[TeamB] Guest Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:01 am    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question David Dean wrote: Quote: Is this in QC? If it is, I'll move at least one vote to it. QC24623, it is there now ;?) I'm storing my own votes up for compiler fixes though - useful as this would be. -- AlisdairM(TeamB) Back to top David Dean Guest Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question In article <43e9403d$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, "Alisdair Meredith[TeamB]" <alisdair.meredith@no-spam-splease (AT) uk (DOT) renaultf1.com> wrote: Quote: QC24623, it is there now ;?) I'm storing my own votes up for compiler fixes though - useful as this would be. I have one vote that is for feature requests, one vote for a boost fix, one for fixing the C++/VCL exception handling, one for the debugger, and one for .hpp file generation. There just are too many areas to split my votes between. -- -David Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. Back to top Mark Jacobs Guest Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question LarryJ wrote: Quote: I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Perhaps this was a joke post. The OP has not replied to any of the suggestions. Larry, have you been hospitalised? Is your mum ill? Please reply. -- Mark Jacobs http://www.dkcomputing.co.uk Back to top roman modic Guest Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Off Topic DOS question Hello! "Mark Jacobs" <markj (AT) critical (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:43f1dc32$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: LarryJ wrote: I have an old DOS program that calculates the position of a planet for a given date. When I run the program on a computer with a modern OS such as WindowsXP Home the program makes all the calculations and then automatically exits so I can never see the results. Does anyone know how I can make the program pause before exiting? Perhaps this was a joke post. The OP has not replied to any of the suggestions. Larry, have you been hospitalised? Is your mum ill? Please reply. Probably not. 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