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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
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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