Thanks for the Oracle list members who responded very
promptly for my question. At the moment, I am very
satisfied with "pause" command.
I have one more question for the DOS Gurus.
Is there a way to change the fond size from the DOS
Script ?
Thanks,
Bob
- "James J. Morrow" <jmorrow_at_warthog.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bob Robert wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I have a DOS batch file. In between this script, I
> > would like to add user interactive question.
> >
> > Ex: Do you want to Continue [Y/N]?
> >
> > Once they hit "Y", it will continue rest of the
> batch
> > file.
> >
> > Could someone able to help me out as per the above
> > requirement?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
>
> Well, the simplest answer would be to use the
> "Pause" command. This assumes, of
> course, that you don't really care what key they
> press...
> simply:
>
> echo "Hit Control-C to abort or..."
> pause
>
> Will return:
>
> "Hit Control-C to abort or..."
> "Press any key to continue"
>
> I'm pretty sure that the DOS "batch" language
> doesn't have any "get keystroke"
> functionality built-in. However, the "CMD" language
> might.
>
> A search on google for "dos cmd batch get"
>
(http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=dos+cmd+batch+get)
> yields
> this link:
>
> http://www.simtel.iif.hu/pub/msdos/batchutl/
>
> Which has a whole slew of MS-DOS based utilities.
> I'm sure one of them would
> have a little *.exe that would read a line or a
> character from stdin.
>
> Additionally, you could consider "Cygnus for
> Windows" (aka "Cygwin") available
> through redhat.com. Cygwin is a Windows tool that
> gives you Unix
> functionality. Including some of the popular unix
> shells for scripting (Bash,
> Tcsh). This product (free, as in beer) provides the
> same functionality as the
> (much more expensive) MKS Toolkit (available from
> MKS Software...
> http://www.mks.com). The MKS toolkit is required
> for Oracle Applications 11i on
> MS Windows NT/2000.
>
>
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cygwin/?topic_id=45%2C74
> or
> http://cygwin.com
>
> -- James
>
> James J. Morrow
> E-Mail: jmorrow_at_warthog.com
> Senior Principal Consultant
> Tenure Systems, Inc.
> McKinney, TX, USA
>
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