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Auto answer in a batch file
Name: Jim Date: October 19, 2000 at 06:56:11 Pacific
Comment:
I'm running a batch file in dos, and in certain situations, the program will prompt me to answer a question. Is there any way I can have the question default to answer Yes if this questions comes up?
Name: mr o Date: October 19, 2000 at 08:57:14 Pacific
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echo y |
will send the answer 'y' to the app
it also depends on the command, format contains hidden switches to turn off the question prompts.
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Response Number 2
Name: Nightraven Date: October 20, 2000 at 02:58:22 Pacific
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By default, if you mean decide on Yes after a certain period of time, then you can use "choice/cyn t:Y,10", for example, to default to Yes after 10 seconds of no response from the user.
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