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Number   :  9447
Date     :  2004-12-06
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Good Old Choise Command
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--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "des4212001"  wrote:
> Yes no Choise in NT Commands was clear. But... I didn't know 
> about "set /P"! And short of starting to read at "A" it would
> have been a while down to "S". That will fill the bill nicely
> thank you. I'll get to WBAT (even had that site filed in
> Favorites under Computer Stuff\Software\DOS\, but then I have
> a lot of stuff Stuffed here & there). No real excuse, but
> first I always go out of my way trying to avoid CMD, only
> to be forced back if I want to get anything done! For instance,
> I followed xxcopy for 1 1/2 years before trying to actually
> use it myself, and guess what, it's only several times better
> than what I was doing previously!
> 
> Thanks Again: DES

In fact CHOICE.EXE was available in NT if you bought the
Resource Kit. Later it became available as a free download
from MS. It was also possible to use a w9x/DOS copy of
CHOICE.COM. However none of these actually worked very
well in the multitasking NT+ environment and had a habit
of failing when invoked several times.

I now use a CHOICE substitute called GETKEY from
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/stewartb/

Bill's writeup explains the benefits, but for me, having
a timeout makes CHOICE/GETKEY superior to SET/P. GETKEY
works pretty much the same as CHOICE but with slightly
different syntax. A simple example is:

getkey -k YN -n -d Y -t Y,10 -p "Proceed with backup? : "
if errorlevel 2 goto :eof
:: Do the backup

Garry



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