[rescue] help, please..

Mike Hebel nimitz at owc.net
Fri Apr 19 00:39:45 CDT 2002


GL> On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 22:36, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
>> On 18 Apr 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>> 
>> > > > The site even has a table summarizing key features.
>> > >
>> > > I found ssed, and it works great - problem now is getting user input
>> > > from the batch file - there's no method for that in DOS or Win2k command
>> > > prompt.  Fucking dumb-ass OS...
>> >
>> > Erm, isn't there a 'prompt' command?  I haven't got DOS available to
>> > check.
>> 
>> There is a prompt command, but that's not what that does.  The only way to
>> get input for a batch file in DOS is either use the choice command for
>> menu driven input, or read command-line options.

GL> Oh, right.  Bleah.  Actually, the windows luzer downstairs tells me that
GL> if this is all on Win2K, you can use windows scripting instead of batch
GL> files.  :-(

Yes, but why would you want to?

Bleah indeed! ;-)

Mike Hebel                        mailto:nimitz at owc.net



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