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Subject: Re: Setting BAT file parms from program
Message-ID: <3780@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 17:13:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 17:13:45 1987
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Keywords: BAT parm program

In article <5292@ut-ngp.UUCP> pyle@ut-ngp.UUCP writes:
>
>I would like to have a program that is executed from a DOS BAT file be able
>to set or modify the BAT file parameter values.  In this manner, the program
>could prompt for some data and subsequent commands executed in the BAT file
>would be able to use the user's repspone (e.g., a path name).  My question:
>can this be done, and if so, how?
>
The INFO-IBMPC library has a couple of routines (BATQUES.ASM and INPUT.C
and associated document files BATQUES.DOC and INPUT.DOC) which allow some
interaction with a batch file.  INPUT.C puts the user's response into
an environment variable which can be used by the .bat file.

Al Stangenberger
Forestry
U.C. Berkeley