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From: rmarks@KSP.Unisys.COM (Richard Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Interactive BAT files: HOW?
Keywords: Interactive, batch, 3.3
Message-ID: <634@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 88 13:25:33 GMT
References: <985@esunix.UUCP> <3251@nicmad.UUCP>
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Organization: Unisys/Knowledge Systems Organization, Frazer, PA
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In article <3251@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>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.
>
>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.

Last winter I posted a program, SETENV, to comp.binaries... that let you
ask a question and then set an environment variable to the response.

Richard Marks
rmarks@KSP.unisys.COM