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Article #8612Re: How to get a value from a .BAT file interactively?
From: Markus Strand
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 19:02
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 19:02
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In article <1991Mar21.173724.2454@axion.bt.co.uk> Katz_P_M@bt-web.bt.co.uk writes: > > I have only recently acquired a PC and am trying to get to grips >with the lack of functionality of DOS compared with Unix, VAX/VMS etc :-( > > Question : I want to read in a value in a BATch file and then make a >decision based on that value. E.g., in pseudo-code : ... > Reading through the manuals I can find no way of doing this. Have I >missed something, or is it not possible (in which case I suppose I need to >write a C/Pascal/BASIC program to do it). With vanilla DOS it's impossible to make an interactive batch file. You can either write a program or get an utility that has this feature. Almoust any batch extender has this feature. Look at simtel or funic for batutils. Markus Strand mstr@vipunen.hut.fi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!vipunen.hut.fi!mstr From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: How to get a value from a .BAT file interactively? Message-ID: <1991Mar24.190214.1683@santra.uucp> Date: 24 Mar 91 19:02:14 GMT References: <1991Mar21.173724.2454@axion.bt.co.uk> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Reply-To: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 20