# I have an old school MS-Dos question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 17, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161 "2002-04-17T15:53:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Clever\_Hans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clever_Hans)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161/1 "2002-04-17T15:53:51Z")
Back ground: I work for a medical software/transcription company. A fairly large clinic wants to use a format our software does not support the transfer of, we do have a proprietary ftp program but our web based program runs much smoother. So I write up a batch file that will change the extension to wav (which will allow it to upload), at the end of the batch file I have it open internet explorer. The batch file looks like this. My question is, is there any way I can open a specific site other than their home page from DOS, if so can you please relay the command?
Thanks in advance.
Clever Hans
@Echo Please wait while your voice files are being copied…
@echo off
@h:
@echo off
@cd dss\_flda
@echo off
@rename h:\dss\_flda\*.dss \*.wav
@echo off
@cd…
@echo off
@cd dss\_fldb
@echo off
@rename h:\dss\_fldb\*.dss \*.wav
@echo off
@cd…
@echo off
@cd dss\_fldc
@echo off
@rename h:\dss\_fldc\*.dss \*.wav
@echo off
@move h:\dss\_flda\*.wav c:\dict
@echo off
@move h:\dss\_fldb\*.wav c:\dict
@echo off
@move h:\dss\_fldc\*.wav c:\dict
@echo off
@C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161/2 "2002-04-17T16:16:48Z")
Why don’t you put the name of the file you wish to open after iexplore.exe?
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### Author:  [@abel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abel)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161/3 "2002-04-17T16:17:08Z")
example…
@C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe [www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com)
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### Author:  [@Clever\_Hans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clever_Hans)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161/4 "2002-04-17T16:28:22Z")
I appreciate the answeres, and did it right before I came back and checked on the board. Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161/5 "2002-04-17T16:31:43Z")
That’s how I’d do it.
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### Author:  [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-old-school-ms-dos-question/104161/6 "2002-04-17T19:08:21Z")
You don’t need the @ sign before each and every line. All it does is to not put the command on the screen. I noticed you had @echo off, which does the same thing for the entire batch file. If you put that at the start of the file, you can delete the @ from the other lines. Also, you shouldn’t need the echo off command every few lines.