Correct, it's not supported in Win XP at least. Shame, "choice" was a good option to use. I saw how to use it in a batch files tutorial online and so much of that tutorial seemed to only apply to "real" DOS, not the "pretend" one in Win XP. Any other way of asking the user to press a key? - I understand what "errorlevel" does and how to goto menus and so on, so any way of asking for a selection would be great.
I hope to be able to use relative paths so that I can try to make the batch files work from the current directory where it's started from to start the relevant emulator, to work around the problem that you can't predict which drive letter the user's computer will assign to the USB drive. e.g. if the batch file qlay.bat is in the root and qlay2.exe is in a directory called \qlay2\ then this should (I hope, not tried it yet) start qlay2.exe, and I'll try to configure the emulators to look for their file systems via a relative directory too: \qlay2\qlay2.exe The only other way I can think of asking for user input is to use SET with the /P option, but I don't know if this works with older DOSes or not (I might raid my wife's laptop in a minute to find out as that has Win 98 on it): SET choice= SET /P choice=Select option 1 to 4 -- Dilwyn Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] batch file > Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> So I started a command prompt and typed in echo /C:1234 to see what >> would happen. It just print /C:1234 on the screen, whereas I wanted >> somethign to ask the user to press 1 2 3 or 4. Asking for help on >> echo >> or batch files doesn't really say anything about keypresses, so I >> don't know what to do now, as I haven't got a dos book. > > I think Tony intended: > > choice Which one? /C:1234 > > However, choice.com (or choice.exe) was not included with later > versions > of DOS so you may need to download it. > -- > Regards, > > Stephen > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.16/1005 - Release Date: > 13/09/2007 11:45 > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
