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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Nov. 5, 2003&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;MicroStation V8.5 - Both &lt;em&gt;!&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;bang&lt;/em&gt; will suspend/halt MicroStation, open a command shell and, if instructed, also send a string.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will start a command shell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;bang&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will start a command shell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;!start iexplore http://www.askinga.com &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will suspend MicroStation, open the command shell, start Microsoft Internet Explorer and open AskInga.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;!start winword d:\temp\MyNotes.doc&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will suspend MicroStation, open the command shell, start MS Word and open MyNotes.doc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;bang d:\mystuff\MyBatch.bat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will open the command shell and run the batch file. Like above, MicroStation will be halted until the command shell is closed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In older versions of MicroStation, you may have to load &lt;em&gt;ntbang&lt;/em&gt; first with this keyin: &lt;em&gt;mdl load ntbang&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With thanks to Bentley&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;Gino Cortesi&lt;/em&gt; for posting this tidbit on the v8.general newsgroup. &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;AskInga Tip #335 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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</description></item><item><title>Suspend MicroStation Open A DOS Window And Start Another Application</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/1019/suspend-microstation-open-a-dos-window-and-start-another-application/revision/1</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:59:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c9352f95-3edf-4e20-97d6-bcad8703e5f8</guid><dc:creator>JStierly</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/1019/suspend-microstation-open-a-dos-window-and-start-another-application#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to [Archived] AskInga Wiki by JStierly on 6/20/2008 12:59:38 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Nov. 5, 2003&lt;/em&gt;
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			&lt;td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"&gt;MicroStation V8.5 - Both &lt;em&gt;!&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;bang&lt;/em&gt; will suspend/halt MicroStation, open a command shell and, if instructed, also send a string.&lt;br /&gt;
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			For example:&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;em&gt;!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Will start a command shell.&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;em&gt;bang&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Will start a command shell&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;em&gt;!start iexplore http://www.askinga.com &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Will suspend MicroStation, open the command shell, start Microsoft Internet Explorer and open AskInga.com&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;em&gt;!start winword d:\temp\MyNotes.doc&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Will suspend MicroStation, open the command shell, start MS Word and open MyNotes.doc.&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;em&gt;bang d:\mystuff\MyBatch.bat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Will open the command shell and run the batch file. Like above, MicroStation will be halted until the command shell is closed.&lt;br /&gt;
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			In older versions of MicroStation, you may have to load &lt;em&gt;ntbang&lt;/em&gt; first with this keyin: &lt;em&gt;mdl load ntbang&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			With thanks to Bentley's &lt;em&gt;Gino Cortesi&lt;/em&gt; for posting this tidbit on the v8.general newsgroup. &lt;/td&gt;
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