Thanks for the Oracle list members who responded very promptly for my question. At the moment, I am very satisfied with "pause" command.
I have one more question for the DOS Gurus. Is there a way to change the fond size from the DOS Script ? Thanks, Bob --- "James J. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bob Robert wrote: > > > > All, > > > > I have a DOS batch file. In between this script, I > > would like to add user interactive question. > > > > Ex: Do you want to Continue [Y/N]? > > > > Once they hit "Y", it will continue rest of the > batch > > file. > > > > Could someone able to help me out as per the above > > requirement? > > > > Thanks, > > Bob > > Well, the simplest answer would be to use the > "Pause" command. This assumes, of > course, that you don't really care what key they > press... > simply: > > echo "Hit Control-C to abort or..." > pause > > Will return: > > "Hit Control-C to abort or..." > "Press any key to continue" > > I'm pretty sure that the DOS "batch" language > doesn't have any "get keystroke" > functionality built-in. However, the "CMD" language > might. > > A search on google for "dos cmd batch get" > (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=dos+cmd+batch+get) > yields > this link: > > http://www.simtel.iif.hu/pub/msdos/batchutl/ > > Which has a whole slew of MS-DOS based utilities. > I'm sure one of them would > have a little *.exe that would read a line or a > character from stdin. > > Additionally, you could consider "Cygnus for > Windows" (aka "Cygwin") available > through redhat.com. Cygwin is a Windows tool that > gives you Unix > functionality. Including some of the popular unix > shells for scripting (Bash, > Tcsh). This product (free, as in beer) provides the > same functionality as the > (much more expensive) MKS Toolkit (available from > MKS Software... > http://www.mks.com). The MKS toolkit is required > for Oracle Applications 11i on > MS Windows NT/2000. > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/cygwin/?topic_id=45%2C74 > or > http://cygwin.com > > -- James > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > James J. Morrow > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Senior Principal Consultant > Tenure Systems, Inc. > McKinney, TX, USA > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: > the unreasonable man > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. > Therefore all progress > depends on the unreasonable man." -- George > Bernard Shaw > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: James J. Morrow > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: > (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet > access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an > E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of > 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information > (like subscribing). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Bob Robert INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
