#Chaos won't exit!!
27-Dec-92 15:45:55
Sb: #30450-#Chaos won't exit!!
Fm: mike dawson 76546,1462
To: John K. Jordan 71174,711
John,
This is the chaos.bat file that I have. Does it match yours? I am
launching from the command line in a vanilla boot and I still can't exit.
Alt-q won't even let me exit!
echo off rem **** James Gleick's CHAOS:The Software **** set
batchval=1 :top if %windir%.==. menu %batchval% if not %windir%.==.
metashel menu %batchval% if errorlevel 999 goto exit if errorlevel 6 goto
toy if errorlevel 5 goto forge if errorlevel 4 goto barn if errorlevel 3
goto attract if errorlevel 2 goto mag if errorlevel 1 goto mand goto top
:mand set batchval=2 if %windir%.==. mandelx %1 if not %windir%.==.
metashel mandelx %1 if errorlevel 255 goto top if errorlevel 2 goto exit
set batchval=0 goto top
:mag set batchval=3 if %windir%.==. magnetx %1 if not %windir%.==. metashel
magnetx %1 if errorlevel 255 goto top if errorlevel 2 goto exit set
batchval=0 goto top
:attract set batchval=4 if %windir%.==. attractx %1 if not %windir%.==.
metashel attractx %1 if errorlevel 255 goto top if errorlevel 2 goto exit
set batchval=0 goto top
:barn set batchval=5 if %windir%.==. gamex %1 if not %windir%.==. metashel
gamex %1 if errorlevel 255 goto top if errorlevel 2 goto exit set
batchval=0 goto top
:forge set batchval=6 if %windir%.==. forgex %1 if not %windir%.==.
metashel forgex %1 if errorlevel 255 goto top if errorlevel 2 goto exit set
batchval=0 goto top
:toy set batchval=7 if %windir%.==. toyx %1 if not %windir%.==. metashel
toyx %1 if errorlevel 255 goto top if errorlevel 2 goto exit set batchval=0
goto top
:exit if %windir%.==. metashel /k cls echo Thank you for using CHAOS: The
Software