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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> 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
>
Whoops - I did mean 'choice' - mistyped.
Brilliant figuring *that* out (8-)#
I see that is not available on NT (on which XP is based).
Sorry.
This URL gives a solution:
http://tinyurl.com/2p8xj8
(PMChoice.bat and the execable PMChoice.kix)
Not nearly as good as 'choice' which I used a lot in the early days.
It would be easy to write a utility in another language - perl is a good
one to learn!
Tony
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