> If just DOS only, using graphics characters, you can create a menu
> system.  Did this about 20 years ago, so I don't know if the 
> graphics
> characters (above 127) will work in the newer DOS boxes in XP.
>
> Tim Swenson
I had a go at doing this, thinking I could add a nice box about the 
title for example. I created the batch file in Notepad and that 
insisted on using a particular character set which if saved using that 
set, the batch file would then flash up briefly and disappear when run 
in the Windows cmd prompt. So I gave up on that one as not being too 
reliable across systems perhaps as I didn't really know what I was 
doing.

As several people have pointed out, batch files are a lazy way of 
front ending something that is really meant to work on a Windows 
system. I just thought that it was a quick and simple way of doing 
something minimal that's all - as long as it works I'm not too fussed.
-- 
Dilwyn Jones

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