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| Posted by
| Arsen
(44 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sat 05 Oct 2002 04:25 AM (UTC) Amended on Sat 05 Oct 2002 04:28 AM (UTC) by Arsen
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| Message
| | Is there any way to hide an MS-DOS window, so that it doesnt show anywhere on the screen, but still have it running? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Sat 05 Oct 2002 10:51 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| Well, you can minimize it. :)
If that isn't good enough, under many versions of Windows (eg. NT, XP, 2000) you can make it a "service" which runs in the background where you don't see it. See the services.txt help file that came with my download. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Saryn
USA (28 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Tue 12 Aug 2003 01:14 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Ok I am feeling stupid. I am running under XP Pro. When I do whats said in services.txt, all that happens is the mud gets booted. No services get installed or anything. Is there a different method? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #3 on Tue 12 Aug 2003 06:38 AM (UTC) Amended on Tue 12 Aug 2003 06:54 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| It worked for me. I tried it under XP Home, which should be much the same. This is what I saw ...
C:\smaug>smaug /?
SMAUG 1.4a
Usage is :-
SMAUG - runs as a service, or stand-alone
SMAUG /run - runs stand-alone
SMAUG /start - starts this service
SMAUG /stop - stops this service
SMAUG /install - installs this service
SMAUG /remove - removes (un-installs) this service
SMAUG /status - displays the status of this service
SMAUG /help - displays this information
C:\smaug>smaug /install
SMAUG 1.4a
Service successfully installed
C:\smaug>smaug /start
SMAUG 1.4a
Start request sent to service
C:\smaug>smaug /status
SMAUG 1.4a
The service is running.
C:\smaug>exit
After doing that the window closed and I was able to connect to the character from MUSHclient. In other words, it was running as a service.
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Mao
(15 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #4 on Tue 12 Aug 2003 03:07 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| When u do what nick said to do , you will be able to connect to the mud from any client , G-mud ,Zmud etc.....
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| Posted by
| Saryn
USA (28 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #5 on Tue 12 Aug 2003 11:54 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| C:\SMAUG>sembia /?
LOADING SEMBIA V0.22b........
Tue Aug 12 19:53:23 2003 :: Booting Database
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tue Aug 12 19:53:23 2003 :: [*****] BOOT: ---------------------[ Boot Log ]-----
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I use sembia cause my .bat is renamed. when I try any command tied to it, it just boots the mud. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #6 on Thu 14 Aug 2003 08:12 AM (UTC) Amended on Thu 14 Aug 2003 08:13 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
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Quote:
When u do what nick said to do , you will be able to connect to the mud from any client , G-mud ,Zmud etc.....
MUSHclient, even. ;) |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #7 on Thu 14 Aug 2003 08:14 AM (UTC) |
| Message
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Quote:
when I try any command tied to it, it just boots the mud.
Try using gdb to work out why it is crashing. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Saryn
USA (28 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #8 on Fri 15 Aug 2003 01:59 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| I apologize if I made myself unclear. When I type anything with sembia, ex:
sembia /?
sembia /install
sembia /start
(I use sembia because my smaug.bat is renamed to sembia.bat) the mud boots up, even if its already booted in another window or not. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #9 on Fri 15 Aug 2003 03:03 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Those instructions were for the smaug.exe that is available for download here. If you compile under Cygwin, and then execute a batch file, you are probably using the "Unix" version of SMAUG, not the one with the WIN32 enhancements such as services. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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