PBLIB does not allow batch jobs via SHELL?

[Clay Clear]

I have been trying for the past hour to get PBLIB to create my
custom PBL via a batch job file. *IF* the calling program
(tried both a 32-bit program and a 16-bit program) first creates
a BAT file, and SHELL's to THAT, it then works. But, it does NOT
work if directly calling PBLIB via SHELL, with the batch job
file passed as a command line argument.

Is this by design? If not, how would I do it with a direct call
with SHELL? It's not critical, I guess, since it DOES work if
the SHELL statement calls the BAT file.


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Clay C. Clear
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Tom Hanlin]

Please show examples, so we can be sure what you're doing.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Barry Erick]

I don't understand what your problem is. When I wrote the Power QPro Pak for
PowerBASIC, I used a batch file to build the hundreds of items that made
the library with no problems.
What I did was use a text file with all the commands in it and
then re-direct it in the batch file:

pblib <pro.rsp

Pro.rsp contained every command for starting the lib, then
bringing in the indivual files.
The start of the pro.rsp, for instance, looks like this:

oPRO
aSOURCE\ADDINT.OBJ
aSOURCE\ADDUSI.OBJ
aSOURCE\ALTKEY.OBJ
aSOURCE\AMENU.OBJ
aSOURCE\AMENUT.OBJ
aSOURCE\APRINT.OBJ
aSOURCE\APRINT0.OBJ
aSOURCE\APRINTT.OBJ
aSOURCE\APRINTT0.OBJ
aSOURCE\ARRAYSIZ.OBJ

The batch file for this one was:

@Echo Off
Echo                      *********************************
Echo                      *            BLDQP              *
Echo                      *                               *
Echo                      *   Build library utility for   *
Echo                      *   QuickPak Professional for   *
Echo                      *          PowerBASIC           *
Echo                      *                               *
Echo                      *                               *
Echo                      *     Building the library      *
Echo                      *           PRO.PBL             *
Echo                      *********************************

IF NOT EXIST PRO.PBL GOTO 1
DEL pro.pbl
:1
IF NOT EXIST %1PBLIB.EXE GOTO ERR1
%1pblib <nuldat.dat >nul
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO ERR
IF NOT EXIST PRO.RSP GOTO ERR
%1pblib <pro.rsp
GOTO END
:ERR
@ECHO Unable to locate pro.rsp
GOTO END
:ERR1
@ECHO Unable to find PBLIB.EXE which must reside in the path or have
@ECHO its location passed as a parameter:
@ECHO           BLDQP c:\PB\
@ECHO Note the trailing "\" which is necessary.
:END

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[Clay Clear]

OK, here's some pseudocode of what I tried (I already scrapped
the nonproductive code, so, gotta rebuild it for these samples):

'Assume dynamic string array X$() is already populated with the names
'of the PBU files - the elements do NOT contain the fully qualified
'paths = they only contain the filenames)
'
IF DIR$("c:\pb35\pbu\always.pbl") <> "" THEN
    KILL "c:\pb35\pbu\always.pbl"
END IF
'
FF& = FREEFILE
OPEN "c:\pb35\pbu\always.rsp" FOR OUTPUT AS #FF&
PRINT #FF&, "oALWAYS"
FOR L& = LBOUND(X$) TO UBOUND(X$)
    PRINT #FF&, "a" + X$(L&)
NEXT
PRINT #FF&, "q"
CLOSE FF&
'
SetCurrentDirectory "c:\pb35\pbu"
'
SHELL "pblib.exe <always.rsp"
'The above code is for the 32-bit program - the DOS version does the
'same thing, except it uses integers instead of longs, and uses
'CHDIR instead of SetCurrentDirectory
'
'The above code causes PBLIB to run in "normal" mode, i.e., when
'you manually delete/add PBU's or OBJ's
'
'Given the following BAT file:
'
'@echo off
'cd\pb35\pbu
'pblib.exe <always.rsp
'
'and replacing the above SHELL statement with:
'
'SHELL ENVIRON$("COMSPEC") + " z.bat"
'
'PBLIB then works correctly in batch mode

Any ideas?



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Clay C. Clear
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Clay Clear]

I think Barry clued me in! The statement in my program:

SHELL "pblib.exe <always.rsp"

was actually a command to redirect the RSP file. (been so long
since I've used DOS redirecting, I forgot all about what the
"<" and ">" are for )

OK, got more experimenting to do!

Thanks, Barry!


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Clay C. Clear
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Clay Clear]

I owe ya one, Barry! ('though, if it helps, I am a licensed user
of QPakPro 1.30. That's where I got the notion of how to
use PBLIB in batch mode ).

All I had to do was change it from:

SHELL "pblib.exe <always.rsp"

to:

SHELL "pblib.exe always.rsp"

Thanks, y'all! Problem solved!


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Clay C. Clear
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