Creating a .bat file

I have searched this board and have not been able to find any info on this, so any help will be greatly appreciated! Here goes...
My objective is to create a single icon on several computers, that when the user double-clicks this icon, two applications are launched.

On these several computers, I am going to
1. setup a dial-up connection to connect to a VPN concentrator or a multi-tech RAS server.
2. install an application that will utilize this new dial-up connection.

What I envision happening is
1.user double-clicks the icon
2.the dialer automatically dials and connects to the concentrator or server
3.once connected, the the application launches.

The reason that I want to do this is to eliminate the steps involved to establish this connection for the end users. I am only vaguely familiar with batch files, but I just thought that one could be created to do this, right? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

-Gump

 

you would honestly be better off using WMI scripting. You can launch an application (your dialup) and then detect when you have a connection and then launch the app. I know you can do it with WMI, but I am just starting with WMI myself so I can't be of much more help than that at this time.