On 27 May 2007 at 0:32, Jim Leonard wrote:
1. Increase FILES= (what is it set to now?)
2. Chain if at all possible (it sounds like you're going past DOS's
nominal level of recursion)
That's what I thought. FILES=500 isn't an option with DOS, I think.
I wonder if doing something like:
job-step-1>TEMP
job-step-2>>TEMP
REN TEMP TARGET-FILE-1
I wonder if a rename forces the batch interpreter to close any reference to
the source file anyway?
Are you stuck using MSDOS? e.g. 4DOS has a much better batch interpreter from
what I remember and might not be crippled in the same way.