What is a batch mode system and it's features?
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The term, "batch", originated in the days when programmers wrote code on paper forms which would be keypunched onto 80-column punch cards or paper tape. The cards or tape would then be passed to the system operator ("sysop") who would schedule the task, and at a later stage feed the program into the computer. Because a number of tasks would be 'batched' together rather than be put into the system immediately the tasks were referred to as "batch jobs".\n\nBatch jobs are set up so they can be run to completion without human interaction, so all input data is preselected through scripts or commandline parameters. This is in contrast to interactive programs which would prompt the user for such input.\n\nBatch jobs are not thought of as interactive, but transaction processing systems such as IBM's CICS may run from a technical perspective as batch jobs, although this is typically obscured from terminal users.\n\nBatch processing has these benefits:\n\nAllows sharing of computer resources among many users \nTime shifts job processing to when the computing resources are less busy \nAvoids idling the computing resources without minute-by-minute human interaction and supervision \nIt is used on expensive classes of computers to help amortize the cost by keeping high rates of utilization of those expensive resources. \nThe batch processing historically been synonomous with mainframe computers. Since this class of computer was so expensive, batch processing was used for the reasons listed above. Also, in the early days of electronic computing, interactive sessions with computer terminal interfaces (and later Graphical user interfaces) were not yet widespread.\n\nThe term batch has now become synonomous with the UNIX operating system, it has strong utilites within the Operating System that allow various computing tasks to be run in a controlled and orderly manner.
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It's a command-line based operating system.\n\nIt allows you to control your computer using text commands (like in Unix), rather than a GUI (Graphical User Interface) like Windows.
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Commands for what?  There are hundreds?
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system prefferences --> users and accounts\n\nYou can choose your options of logon. Just like the good ol winbl0wz
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Open several windows.  Move your mouse over the taskbar, right click on your mouse, and select 'Cascade Windows'.  That should answer your question.
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Gosh, tough one this. I write software to do that but... if you were doing something simple, an easy way forward is a series of DOS FTP commands, written into a batch file and called at the appropriate time by Windows Scheduler.\n\nGo into Google and do a search for "FTP Commands with batch file" and you will be able to produce some sort of bodge.
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You could possibly write something like your own batch file to do it.
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What a great question!\n\nYou know, I used to write batch files for everything under the sun back in the old DOS 6 / Windows 3.11 days, but somehow got away form doing so as Windows evolved -- I wasn't even sure it still supported batch files!  But a little digging turns up the fact that yes it does.  It appears that what you are after is a "script file" (which seems to do within Windows what the Batch files do within DOS), though I'm not yet sure if that denotes a truly different type of file or if it is just a different name for the same thing.\n\nAnyway, here are a few interesting looking links I found:\nhttp://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/batch_tutorial.html\nhttp://labmice.techtarget.com/scripting/default.htm\nhttp://www.onesmartclick.com/programming/batch-files.html\n\nSorry I couln't be more help than that, but hopefully it gets you started in the right direction.  Thanks for asking the question, it gave me something new to go learn about!
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What type of program or command do you want to execute.\nIf you don't want all the commands to be seen, each command line has to start with echo. That is echo and a period which means don't show what is typed after it. I haven't written a batch command for some time but it can be tricky if you mis-type a single keystroke.\nE-mail me with details of what you want to do and I'll see if I can make it work.
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The "sleep" command included in the Microsoft Resource Kit is an excellent utility that will perform exactly what you need.\n\nIt comes as part of most recent resource kits downloadable from Microsoft.  Here's the 2003 server resouce kit link, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en\n\nHere are links about sleep.exe\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=microsoft+windows+%22resource+kit%22+sleep.exe+%22batch+file+wait%22\n\nAs far as I know, sleep.exe is not tied to any particular version of MS Windows OS, so the one in the 2003 resource kit will be fine for your purposes.\n\nThe syntax is simple\n  sleep xxxx\nwhere xxxx is the number of seconds you want the system to wait before processing the next line of your batch file.
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Ok I have a new and better Idea,... there is 2 parts to this....\n\nOpen up note pad and type the following\n\nshutdown /s /c "Time to go to bed"\n\n\nthen click file "save as"  then change "save as type:" to "all files".\nThen type in the following as the name...   "test01.bat"\n\nafter you created the file, then click...\nStart>Settings> Control Panel\n\nswitch to classic view, then go to Schedualed tasks...\n\nRight click the background, and select "new" then click "schedualed task"\n\nunder "Run:" click "Browse..." then select the test01.bat file\n\nafter that, click the schedule tab, and select at what time you want the computer to turn off.\n\nThen apply the changes and you are all set up!\n\n\nOk... now that I explained "How" to do it,... I will explain "Why" it works...\n\nwhen wrote in notepad, you were making a little program called a batch file. Batch files are simply commands that are sent as arguments to the command prompt... so when you open this file it will send the contents to the command prompt and execute its contents.\n\nso... here is what you told the computer to do in that batch file... \nshutdown - shut downs the computer...\n/s  - comfirms you are shuttng down the computer (rather then restarting it)\n/c "comment" - will display a comment when the computer is shutting down.\n\nokey dokey, then we created a system task. the system task will execute this program, and will shut down the computer at the time that you set it to...\n\nhope this helps...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nedit... the below does not work,... disreguard....\n\nYou can set a system scheduald command... here is the easy steps.\ngo to...\n\nStart>Run> cmd\n\nthen the command prompt should come up...\nthen type the following...\n\nat 20:30 shutdown\n\n(in place of 20:30 type the time you wish the computer to shutdown, make sure it is in military time/24hour format)\n\nthen at that time, the computer will shut down...\n\n\nhope this helps\n\n**brb ill check to make sure this works... brb**
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Batch process is quicker since you run in parallel, whereas continuous process is serial so slower.
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XMMS (the X Multimedia System)\ni don't know the layout of FC's menus, but i'm assuming you can click the application menu and go to ?programs? then ?multimedia? and it'll be xmms\nor just run the command xmms\ni'm sure there are others on there like amarok, xine, mplayer, but xmms is the absolute best, it's a clone of winamp
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Control panel\nSystem restore\nPick your day\nRestore
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Using Bootcamp or Virtual PC, you CAN work on multiple applications at once.\n\nBeauty of multi-tasking.
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You could create a batch file. ie. runcmd.bat and inside it put the command cmd. Alternatively you could run commands using a vbscript file. Or you could use an MS-DOS or WindowsXP bootdisk and boot into that instead of windows. I create the systems that keep students from doing this sort of thing, and in general, the security is pretty strong, but good luck to you.
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yes, learn about the \n\n"shutdown" command in the command prompt, or the scheduled tasks