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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Interactive BAT files: HOW?
Keywords: Interactive, batch, 3.3
Message-ID: <3251@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 19:00:28 GMT
References: <985@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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Organization: Mr. Video's Hangout
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In article <985@esunix.UUCP> angerhof@esunix.UUCP (Norman Angerhofer) writes:
<I would like to alter my AUTOEXEC.BAT file (or another BAT file)
<to accept interactive input.  I want it to ask me a question
<(such as who I am), and based on the answer, perform a system setup.
<Alas, I cannot find anything in my eMeSS-DOS (3.3) manual or elsewhere
<that tells me how to do this.  Is it possible?  If so, how, and which
<book(s) describe it?

MS-DOS does not allow interactive sessions in .BAT files.  To give it that
feature would require the use of a utility like Norton's ASK.  It asks the
question and put the answer in the environment.
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