I am willing to pay for help with WinBatch file. Interested ?
Jan Buyvoets
I am looking for someone who can make me a Winbatch file to
automatically execute Powerpoint presentations as described below.
Although it's rather simple I think, I do not have the time to learn
the Winbatch programming language properly.
If you have the experience, please send me an e-mail with a price to
make this batchfile, and I may decide to give you the order for the
file.
We will agree somehow on a way for payment.
Situation: one NT fileserver, and seven 486 PC's with local installed
WIN95 and local installed Powerpoint 7.0, PC's also in the network.
Required functionality :
First I will make a presentation in Powerpoint, and
store it on the server. Then with the program Winbatch I want the local
installed PC's perform a Powerpoint presentation in a loop with the
following functions:
1. With the function FileTimeGet get the date/time of the presentation
stored on the server S:\Presentation.ppt (= A)
2. With the function FileTimeGet get the date/time of the presentation
stored on the local PC C:\Presentation.ppt (= B)
3. IF A = B THEN run the presentation with Powerpoint on the local PC in
a loop.
4. Wait 5 minutes.
5. ELSE stop Powerpoint presentation and copy Presentation.ppt from
server to local C:\ drive
6. GoTo 1.
In this way I can constantly run a server stored presentation on some
local PC's in a loop, and have minimal traffic on the network. I can
update the presentation on the server a few times per day, and this will
be checked by the program every 5 minutes.
I tried to solve this problem with WinBatch, but I'm not experienced
enough to solve amongst others the problem of getting Powerpoint in a
presentation loop. Furthermore, while the program is in the presentation
loop, it should also check the file date/time on the server. This should
also be included in the Winbatch file.
To me it seems fairly simple to solve this with a WinBatch program, but
I still struggling with it.
Anyone out there that can help me producing this file.
Please reply with e-mail.
Regards from Holland,
Jan Buyvoets
E-mail : buyv...@wtb.geveke.nl